Mitch Shaw reports: More than 500 Hill Air Force Base employees had sensitive personal information compromised after another base employee improperly transmitted the information to an unprotected email address. In early July, a base administrative employee was working with data that contained the names and Social Security numbers of hundreds of base employees. The employee,…
Category: Government Sector
Fed Evaluating Breach of Employee Data With Law Enforcement
Jeff Kearns reports: The Federal Reserve is working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the posting of employee data on a website today. The central bank’s critical operations weren’t affected, the Fed said. Individuals claiming to be part of the hacker group known as Anonymous posted what they said were “full details of every single employee at…
UK: Local Government Ombudsman (the LGO) signs undertaking after data breach
An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by the Local Government Ombudsman. This follows the theft of a bag containing hard copy papers relating to complaints made to the Local Government Ombudsman (the LGO) including some sensitive personal information. The bag, which was stolen from an investigator at a…
Ca: Security breach at Charlottetown ACOA office
Well, this may or may not be a breach, as they’re not saying what’s on the stolen computers. Nigel Armstrong reports: Four laptop computers are missing from a federal government agency in Charlottetown, but no one is commenting on what data might be in them. Staff at the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency at 100 Sydney…
ZA: Joburg billing security breach
Anna Cox reports that more than 1 million customers may have had their information exposed for years by an improperly secured city web site: The City of Joburg has apologised for the inconvenience caused by the security glitch that exposed customer rates and services invoices to fraudsters. The e-statement site had to be shut down…
Department of Energy Hacked Again
Rachel King reports: The United States Department of Energy notified employees via an email Wednesday that hackers gained personal information, such as names and social security numbers, of 14,000 current and former agency employees as the result of a hack that occurred in late July. This is the second attack this year that involved a…