Remember that ridiculous lawsuit by Vernon Township against individuals to whom it had accidentally released employees’ Social Security numbers? There’s an update. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: The individuals who received the Social Security numbers of 119 Vernon employees were ordered by a judge to sign certification saying that the confidential information was deleted and not disseminated….
Category: Government Sector
Hackers got personal info from state computers
I’m having one of those “WTH???” moments. Read this report from Associated Press: Some state employees and vendors who do business with Alabama are being notified that their personal information was accessed when hackers infiltrated a state computer system. The state Department of Homeland Security announced today that it was making the notifications, but wouldn’t…
19 Derbyshire police workers caught abusing force files
Nineteen members of staff at Derbyshire police have breached data protection rules in the last three years by accessing information they were not allowed to see. One officer searched the force database to find information logged about his relationship with an illegal immigrant. He resigned before misconduct proceedings could take place Read more from the…
Bullying is not an appropriate breach response
I recently posted what I considered to a stupid lawsuit – one where the party that had a breach sued the hapless recipients of the breached information. Today I found another example of bullying and threats in response to a breach. It seems that an employee of Tooele County made an error years ago and…
Mossad web site data hacked by #OpIsrael, agents data leaked. Oh really?
When HackRead reported, #OpIsrael: Mossad Website breached, Personal Details of over 30,000 Agents Leaked by Anonymous, my first thought was that I wished they didn’t just uncritically repeat claims. Did they examine the database/spread sheets before repeating tweets and claims? I did a random check of the database, and frankly, I find it extremely unlikely that…
Stupidest Lawsuit of the Week: Vernon Township files suit in Social Security numbers breach that they caused; accuses the recipients of violating employee privacy
Jessica Masulli Reyes reports that Vernon Township in New Jersey is suing the recipients of an inadequately redacted email attachment with town employees’ Social Security numbers. They are also reportedly suing the newspaper that published a story about the breach. Riiiiight…. Reyes writes: The lawsuit, filed by Kevin Kelly in state Superior Court in Newton…