For the second time in less than one month, a Florida sheriff’s department has been hacked. In April, it was the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. This time, it’s the Glade County Sheriff’s Office. In a statement on the breach, @k0detec writes: Oh Hai Glade County Florida Sheriff’s Department. Your security sucks and your usernames and…
Category: Government Sector
UK: Personal details of Army snipers found in trunk of a second-hand car
This morning’s “Oh FFS!” breach: details of 28 snipers were found in the trunk of a used car purchased last August. The documents included “the names of personnel from a number of regiments, including one currently operating in Afghanistan, as well as details of a snipers’ training course.” And if that didn’t make it easy…
UK council fined £70,000 following theft of highly sensitive data from employee’s home (updated with response from Council)
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The London Borough of Barnet has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 for losing paper records containing highly sensitive and confidential information, including the names, addresses, dates of birth and details of the sexual activities of 15 vulnerable children or young people. The loss occurred when a social worker took the paper records…
Zero tolerance for human error? Utah governor fires tech director
Heather May reports that at least one head has rolled in the wake of the Utah Department of Health breach in March: Gov. Gary Herbert apologized to the 780,000 victims of the health data security breach on Tuesday. To restore the public’s trust, he announced Tuesday that he fired Department of Technology Services director Stephen…
California DOJ notifies those affected by a hack of a retired agent’s email accounts
Have I mentioned how valuable it is when states post breach notices online? A reader points me to a new addition to California’s security notices page from the DOJ’s Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team (C.A.T.C.H.). The incident they are reporting was a hack by those affiliated with Anonymous in 2011: In November 2011,…
Il: Six indicted over Population Registry data theft
More on a breach previously mentioned on this blog last year. Joanna Parasczuk reports on the evolution of a data breach that started in 2006 as an insider breach and ultimately affected everyone in Israel, it seems: The Tel Aviv District Attorney has charged six people, including a computer programmer formerly employed as a Social…