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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
SC Department of Employment & Workforce notifying employees after former employee downloaded their info onto a flash drive
Seanna Adcox of Associated Press reports yet another breach in South Carolina, this one involving the state’s employment and workforce agency: South Carolina’s unemployment agency began notifying more than 4,600 people Wednesday that a former employee may have compromised their personal information. The employee who downloaded the data to a personal flash drive was fired…
NC: Ex-Alamance County employee pleads guilty in identity theft case
Michael D. Abernathy reports: A former Alamance County Department of Social Services employee pleaded guilty in federal court this week to using personal information of child abuse victims in a tax fraud scheme. Rakecia Matrese Brame was indicted Oct. 28 on 33 total counts of identity theft, and wire fraud, aiding in tax fraud, according…
Australian police investigating teen who found database flaw
Jeremy Kirk reports: An Australian teenager who notified a public transport agency of a serious database flaw is under police investigation. Joshua Rogers, 16, of Melbourne, found a SQL injection flaw in a database owned by Public Transport Victoria (PTV), which runs the state’s transport system. The flaw allowed access to a database containing 600,000…