Michael Booth reports: The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has lost thousands of applicant names on a computer disk for the second time in a year, triggering a public notice under federal privacy rules. HCPF officials said the names of 3,590 medical-aid applicants were on the lost disk, though the data did…
Category: Government Sector
Chinga La Migra Hacks Arizona Law Enforcement for Third Unprecedented Time
Stephen Lemons writes: Arizona law enforcement cannot be sleeping well tonight, with the keyboard anarchists of “Chinga La Migra” (“Fuck the Border Patrol,” in English) claiming yet another hack with a corresponding data dump of local cops’ personal info. I only say “claiming” because I’m still accessing the torrent. (Hey, I never said I was Julian…
Arizona state police confirm 2nd hack on officers’ email
Howard Fischer reports: A new computer attack Wednesday on the Department of Public Safety hit only officers’ outside and personal emails and, unlike last week, not the agency’s own computers, DPS Capt. Steve Harrison said. He said it appears the two incidents are linked, with those who broke into the DPS computers last week stealing…
AU: Mosman Municipal Council hacked by Anonymous?
Hamish Barwick reports: Sydney’s Mosman Municipal Council website has suffered a security breach that made the details of nine council staff available for download. However, according to a statement on the Council’s website no ratepayer information from the internal systems had been accessed. The hack was made via an SQL injection exploit on a subsidiary…
Texas Official Must Talk About Data Leaks
David Lee reports: A state judge ordered the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to comply with a request for a deposition on the leak of personal information of more than 3.5 million people. Comptroller Susan Combs disclosed in April that the personal information of 3.5 million state employees and former employees had been stored on…
Man’s ‘horror’ at NHS web privacy leak
Rhianne Pope reports: A jobseeker has said he is “horrified” after logging on to an NHS job site and seeing other people’s data. The 62-year-old from Bicester, who wished to remain anonymous, said he visited Jobs.nhs.uk to look for a new maintenance job. But after registering his name on the site last Monday, he realised…