Jared Savage reports: Ten Work and Income staff members have been sacked after two inquiries into breaches of privacy for beneficiaries. The national review of the Ministry of Social Development was launched last December after an investigation into staff at the Manukau branch office. Seven were dismissed for “appalling” breaches of the code of conduct…
Category: Government Sector
AU: Diggers’ personal details released in email
Privacy concerns have been raised after the personal details of thousands of former Australian Defence Force personnel were wrongly sent out in an email. The Defence Community Organisation, which helps families adjust to military life, emailed a database of nearly 2,500 former Defence staff to around 400 other ex-service personnel. The information included names, identification…
Elections Ontario breach update
Two memory sticks with some information on voters registered with Elections Ontario are missing because personnel did not follow protocol. Earliest reports on the breach involving Elections Ontario said that the data were encrypted. Later reports are now saying that the data were NOT encrypted (see official press statement) and that up to 2.4 million may…
CORRECTION
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.
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…