Regina Medina reports: A recent security breach caused the names and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 members of the pension fund for Pennsylvania public school employees to be accessible to the public, state officials said Tuesday. The Public School Employees’ Retirement System sent a notification letter about the situation to about 2,000 of its…
Category: Government Sector
Ca: ‘Insider’ government data breaches soaring
Emily Chung reports: The proportion of “insider” internet security breaches caused by employees are rising quickly within Canadian government departments and agencies, a new study shows. Insider breaches in the government sector grew by 28 per cent between 2010 and 2011 and are up 68 per cent since 2008, the fourth annual Telus-Rotman joint study…
GA: Crime victims’ personal information found in used car
A video news report from Georgia is worth noting. It seems a now-former police officer in the Clayton County Police Department sold his car to someone who, months later, discovered that a pad left in the car contained a lot of personal and sensitive details of crime victims and other incidents the officer had investigate….
UK: Oliver Letwin breached data protection laws, report confirms (updated)
Hélène Mulholland reports the follow-up to a breach reported previously on this blog: Oliver Letwin committed a series of data protection breaches by dumping correspondence from constituents in a park bin close to Downing Street, according to the information commissioner. The letters and emails contained the names, addresses and contact details of about 20 individuals,…
Czech Education Minister to fire bureaucrat responsible for Romani data leak
As an update to a post involving a web leak of Romani student data on the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Education site, Romea.cz has an update: The Czech Interior Ministry has learned which bureaucrat published a list of Romani pupils including sensitive data about them to the ministry website. Czech Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs…
Czech Education Ministry faces CZK 10 million fine over leak of Romani students’ private data
A list of Romani scholarship recipients including sensitive personal data showed up recently on the Czech Education Ministry’s website. The ministry removed the list after Czech Television reported on the case earlier this week. Czech Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs – VV) has filed criminal charges against an unidentified perpetrator over the information leak….