A post that previously appeared here incorrectly indicated that the Utah Dept. of Health had first sent out some notification letters this week. My apologies to the state. The notification letters related to a breach at University of Nebraska that was disclosed in May.
Category: Government Sector
Elections Ontario reveals privacy breach of voter data (updated)
From CBC News: Elections Ontario has discovered a privacy breach that involves the personal information of voters in up to 24 provincial ridings. CBC News has learned that memory sticks containing personal information about voters have gone missing from the office of the chief electoral officer for Ontario. The information on the missing memory sticks…
NY Lawmakers Angry At DiNapoli Over Privacy Breach
Okay, so this may not be a good time to call Comptroller DiNapoli’s office to find out whatever happened to the K-12 data security audits they had told me they would be conducting last year. Ken Lovett reports: State Controller Thomas DiNapoli is taking major heat for the office blunder that led to the Social…
Anonymous hack hands WikiLeaks TWO MILLION Syrian emails
Phil Muncaster reports: Hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for an attack on the computer systems of the Syrian government and its evil overlord Bashar Assad thanks to which over two million emails ended up in the hands of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. As of last Thursday, the site began drip-feeding sections of the ‘Syria Files’…
AU: Did Stay Smart Online’s contractor lose your data?
Oops. A follower on Twitter DM’d me a link to this breach notification from Stay Smart Online, an initiative of the AU government: Notification of Subscriber Data Loss Dear Subscriber We are writing to notify you that the Department has been advised by a former external contractor that a DVD which included information provided by…
BC Hydro asks customers to check bills after online security breach
Michael Mui reports: BC Hydro is asking its online credit-card customers to check their bills after a security breach was detected last week. Corporation spokeswoman Jennifer Young said the breach — which involved credit card information not being properly encrypted — has been corrected, but urges those who paid online with a credit card in…