David Shepardson reports: The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday. The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs. It was not…
Category: Government Sector
Employee records exposed in Ambulance Victoria data breach
Anthony Anderson reports: Confidential employee information has been exposed in a data breach at Ambulance Victoria (AV). The data in question is the drug and alcohol tests of prospective graduate paramedics collected between May 2017 and October 2018. The documents had become accessible on Ambulance Victoria’s internal intranet. Read more at Herald Sun.
Japan’s ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches
Simon Sharwood reports: Japan’s minister for digital transformation and digital reform, Taro Kono, has apologized after a government app breached citizens’ privacy. The app is called the “Certificate Issuing Server” and, as explained by the municipal government of Kodaira City, allows residents to print documents such as certificates that prove they’ve paid taxes. Fujitsu Japan developed and…
Za: Department of justice negligence leads to huge personal data loss
Rorisang Kgosana reports: The department of justice & constitutional development contravened the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, resulting in the loss of more than 1,200 files. The Information Regulator issued an enforcement notice to the department this week for a September 2021 security breach on its IT systems. […] The security breach was caused…
City of Dallas update on ransomware attack recovery efforts
4 p.m. update, Monday, May 8 As of Monday, May 8 DallasCityHall.com and DallasPolice.net are back online. 911 and 311 intake and dispatch continue via phone and radio dispatch while Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD) components including 1900 mobile devices (1600 for DPD and 300 for DFR) and the server routing calls are tested to ensure…
Roskomnadzor’s structure was fined for improperly divulging employee information
Annabelle Custodio reports: The Main Radio Frequency Center under Roskomnadzor was fined for leaking employee data, according to the records in the Justice of the Peace file cabinet No. 456. A notice regarding the judgment “on the imposition of a administrative penalty” appeared in the file cabinet on May 2, but the substance of the…