Joe Gould reports: The Army has been slow to inform 31 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross, or their families, that the recipients’ Social Security numbers were posted online. More than a week after the breach was made public, eight recipients of the DSC, the military’s second highest award for…
Category: Government Sector
UK: Essex County Council ‘sensitive’ data found in building
BBC reports: An investigation is under way into how “sensitive” information belonging to Essex County Council ended up in a disused building. The security breach was one of three “recent” episodes at the Conservative-run council. The Information Commissioner’s Office has confirmed it is investigating the breaches. According to BBC, two of the breaches were “committed…
Reports of Another Education Department Data Breach
A new feature for student borrowers on the Education Department’s National Student Loan Data System might have revealed personal data about borrowers, mimicking another data breach a year ago. The system, a clearinghouse for borrowers and institutions to get information about student loans, recently added a way for borrowers to download all of their data…
Marine pleads guilty to federal identity theft fraud
Wayne K. Roustan reports: A 23-year-old U.S. Marine is looking at up to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges in an identity theft case that victimized fellow Marines stationed with him in Afghanistan, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer announced Wednesday in Miami. Jobson Cenor, of North Miami, plotted with Dorothy…
Calgary Board of Education admits flub after publishing private info about trustees
Jeremy Nolais reports: Calgary Board of Education officials have removed expense documents from the organization’s website after realizing some of the published material contained private information. Partial credit card numbers and expiry dates, personal home and cell phone numbers as well as information concerning the place of work of at least one trustee’s husband was…
Sensitive social service files found on TV set that was former Enfield Council building
John Dunne reports: An urgent investigation has been launched after dozens of confidential social services files were found at an abandoned town hall in London. The documents, including highly sensitive reports on parents turned down for adoption and the case notes on the Victoria Climbié case, were left on shelves and tables on public view…