Robert Kittle reports a development in a breach previously noted on this blog: A new development in the security breach at the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce. The SCDEW employee fired for accusations she downloaded more than 4,600 other employees and family members has filed a civil lawsuit against the agency. Read more on WLTX.
Category: Government Sector
Conspirators testify in Ramsey County identity theft trial
Chao Xiong reports the follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: A former state employee accused of stealing identities from a state database and other sources traded that information for methamphetamine, one of her conspirators testified Thursday. Roxanne K. Deflorin, 50, is on trial this week in Ramsey County District Court for the…
Alabama Medical Clerk and Another Indicted in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Schemes
Sasha Webb and Charlie Jackson have each been indicted for stolen identity refund fraud crimes, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama announced today following the unsealing of their indictments after their arrests. Webb was arrested on Dec….
Veteran Affairs’ E-Benefits website exposing veterans’ information
Jon Camp reports: Navy veteran Sylvester Woodland said he couldn’t believe what he was seeing Wednesday night when he logged onto the Veteran Affairs’ E-Benefits website. “It gave me a different person’s name, each and every time I came back,” Woodland said. At first I thought it was just a glitch, but the more I…
Oops – some Burlington residents’ SSN exposed on the city’s website
The City of Burlington in Vermont is notifying some of its residents that their names and Social Security numbers had not been redacted from their tax abatement requests that were submitted to the city’s board and uploaded to the city’s website as part of a clickable agenda for the meeting. The information was uploaded on…
Tokyo ordered to pay damages to Muslim victims of privacy breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach covered previously on this site involving a data leak from the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 90 million yen (around $860,000) in damages to 17 Muslims for the breach of privacy lawsuit they filed against the city. Around 114 documents were leaked…