Andrew Shain reports: A bill, approved Tuesday by a state Senate committee, would offer credit-fraud protection for 10 years to S.C. taxpayers and others after hackers stole information belonging to 6.4 million consumers, children and businesses from the S.C. Department of Revenue last fall. The bill now goes to the full Senate. […] The bill…
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Montreal Police officers’ and undercover agents’ information dumped on Dropbox
Laura Casella reports: There has been an apparent security breach at the Montreal police department. Hackers have released a large amount of confidential files. […] The files are filled with personal information about the SPVM [Service de police de la Ville de Montréal]. What looks to be the most worrisome is a file containing the…
EE: Former Police Official Found Guilty of Leaking Personal Data
Meanwhile, in Estonia: On Tuesday, Harju County Court found Alice Järvet, a former head of the analysis and planning bureau, guilty of leaking information from a police database. Järvet was fined 9,398 euros and was suspended from police work for three years, court spokeswoman Kristina Ots told uudised.err.ee. In January, the public prosecutor made a…
DOE reveals data disclosure involving 12,000 workers
It’s been a rough few days for governmental agencies, it seems. First it was the GSA breach, and now DOE. Bob Pavey reports: Federal authorities are investigating a security breach in which personal information from at least 12,000 Savannah River Site workers was compromised last month. “Initial indications are that this disclosure was not the…
General Services Administration discloses vulnerability; starts notifying those potentially affected
When I first saw reference to this vulnerability report, I thought it was a non-U.S. situation. But then I realized it was our government. Oops! Posted on the GSA’s web site, yesterday: System for Award Management Security Vulnerability SAM SECURITY ISSUE March 2013 Recently, U.S. GSA officials identified a security vulnerability in the System for…
FL: Jacksonville intranet breach exposed employees’ Social Security numbers
Fox30 reports from Jacksonville, Florida: A confidential document containing the social security numbers of every city employee hired after 2005, was found on an internal website. A city worker found the document and forwarded it on public officials. According to a letter sent to city council members, the employee was placed on paid administrative leave…