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Texas Comptroller Ducks Deposition Over Data Breach

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Dissent

Jess Davis reports: A Texas appeals court on Thursday blocked a civil rights advocacy group from deposing the state comptroller about a 2010 data breach that published online personal information about millions of Texans, saying the agency has governmental immunity. Read more on Law360.com (sub. required).

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UK: Aberdeen City Council fined £100,000 after sensitive information exposed on the Internet

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Dissent

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced that a monetary penalty notice has been served on Aberdeen City Council after inadequate homeworking arrangements led to 39 pages of personal data being uploaded onto the internet by a Council employee.  The council has been fined £100,000. The incident occurred in November 2011, after a home working  employee…

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Hill AFB employee personal info improperly transmitted

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Dissent

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,…

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Fed Evaluating Breach of Employee Data With Law Enforcement

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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UK: Local Government Ombudsman (the LGO) signs undertaking after data breach

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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Ca: Security breach at Charlottetown ACOA office

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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