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Oops. Japanese Government Shares Internal E-Mails on Google

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Dissent

Akiko Fujita reports: You may want to think twice the next time you skip over those privacy settings online. Government ministries in Japan are playing damage control after accidentally leaking internal emails on Google Groups, unaware that the site’s default settings would make their private conversations public. A spokesman with the Ministry of Environment tells…

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California Dept. of Consumer Affairs has a breach, but doesn’t notify those affected for 6 months?

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Dissent

Ouch. The California  Department of Consumer Affairs – Bureau of Automotive Repair  (“BAR”) learned that a service provider had a network intrusion breach  that gave someone access to bank account numbers and bank routing numbers belonging to the Smog Check stations licensed by the BAR. The breach reportedly occurred between May 2012 and March 2013,…

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Statement of Public.Resource.Org on IRS web exposure of tens of thousands of SSNs

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Dissent

From their web site: Public.Resource.Org has discovered that the Internal Revenue Service has posted the Social Security Numbers of tens of thousands of Americans on government web sites. The database in question contains the filings of Section 527 political organizations such as campaign committees. This Section 527 database is an essential tool used by journalists, watchdog groups, congressional staffers,…

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UK: Fury as confidential documents found blowing in the wind in Hatfield

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Dissent

Paul Christian reports additional details on a breach mentioned previously on this blog: Confidential documents were found blowing in the wind in Hatfield in “an alarming discovery” by a councillor. The papers, believed to have come from the former county supplies depot in Mount Pleasant Lane, included an employee appraisal form which featured a worker’s…

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Confidential Hertfordshire County Council papers ‘found in street’

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Dissent

From BBC: A council has apologised after papers holding personal staff details were found discarded in a street. Liberal Democrat councillor Paul Zukowskyj said he saw Hertfordshire County Council documents outside a former adult care office in Hatfield. Derrick Ashley, cabinet member for resources, said the council apologised and would investigate how it happened. Mr…

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Around 100,000 members of Korea’s presidential office site hacked

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Dissent

The numbers keep changing on a breach reported last week. Now Arirang News reports: We reported earlier last week that the website of Korea’s presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae came under a cyber-attack on Tuesday and on this Sunday, new reports show that personal information of around 100-thousand Cheong Wa Dae website members has…

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