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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
Kent County Council sends sensitive adoption details to wrong party
Sending sensitive adoption details to the wrong e-mail address is bad. Misdirecting them to an employee of the BBC is sure to get media coverage. BBC reports that’s what happened with the Kent County Council, who are now investigating how a BBC employee was sent such sensitive information.
NC: Laptops stolen from Robeson elections board contained personal info of 71,000 voters
Ali Rockett reports that 71,000 registered voters were notified by letter dated September 12 that five laptops containing their personal information were stolen from the Robeson County Board of Elections sometime between July 18 and September 4. The unencrypted laptops had been kept in a padlocked room, but were removed during a time that a…