Chequlia Motley of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced Tuesday to serve 36 months in prison for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George L. Beck Jr. Motley pleaded guilty to those charges in May 2013. According…
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Privacy watchdog fines Greece’s Finance Ministry for data protection failure
Associated Press reports that Greece’s Finance Ministry has been fined €150,000 ($200,000) by the privacy watchdog for allegedly failing to protect data on millions of taxpayers. The data ended up in the hands of private companies, or in some cases, in the hands of data thieves. The Data Protection Authority said Friday the ministry hadn’t taken…
Serious Farce Office: SFO suffers biggest-ever criminal data breach
James Moore reports: The Serious Fraud Office is engulfed by a new scandal after it admitted that thousands of pages of evidence as well as tapes and data files from 58 separate sources were sent back to the wrong owner. The enormous volume of evidence related to its long-running corruption investigation into defence giant BAE…
UK: Council’s data blunder branded ‘sloppy’ by FoI expert
Another case where a FOI (freedom of information) response exposed too much: A data blunder which saw the council release sensitive staff information has been branded ‘sloppy and embarrassing’ by the recipient. Roger Gill originally submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Horsham District Council after receiving no response to a complaint about Acorn…
Sacramento RT worker suspected in ID theft of 30 co-workers
A Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) employee was relieved of duty after allegedly stealing personal information from at least 30 co-workers to obtain thousands of dollars in payday loans, according to an internal memo. Watch the video on ABC.
UK: Welsh councils broke data protection laws 60 times
Alun Jones reports: Local authorities in Wales broke data protection laws over 60 times in 2012, BBC Wales has learned. In one case a worker allowed their partner to access and amend personal data. There were also several cases of posting personal data on websites, and an e-mail which accidentally disclosed sensitive details of 24…