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UK: Child’s police station interview discovered dumped at bus station

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Dissent

Mark Mcgivern reports: Confidential police videos of a little girl telling officers about alleged violent child abuse have been found at a bus station. Last night, the shocking breach of privacy over the six-year-old’s harrowing interview was the subject of an urgent inquiry. Senior Strathclyde Police officers admitted they were unsure if the tapes –…

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UK: Wiltshire Council documents found in wheelie bin

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Dissent

An investigation has been launched after a bag full of birth registrations and internal council emails was found in a household bin in Wiltshire. A couple from Westbury found the Wiltshire Council documents in their wheelie bin soon after it had been emptied. The documents were traced back to Trowbridge. A council spokesman apologised and…

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Hackers didn’t retrieve data in Defense pharmacy website attack

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dissent

Bob Brewin follows up a government site that appeared on a hacker’s list of compromised sites for sale: No data has been siphoned off the Defense Department PharmacoEconomic Center website and domain as the result of a hacker attack reported by a security firm last week, a Military Health System spokesman said. Austin Camacho, a spokesman…

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UK: Somerset schools’ website security ‘breached’ by Southwest One

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Dissent

Rory McKeown reports: Claims have been made that Southwest One published security passwords for every school website in the county online. An unnamed source contacted this website claiming someone from the venture allegedly performed the “massive security breach” while updating the website itsc.co. uk. They allege security passwords for every school in Somerset and other…

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(Ohio follow-up) Two sentenced in Franklin County Municipal Court ID Theft Case

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Dissent

Kathy Lyn Gray reports: Two Columbus residents will spend two and half years in federal prison for taking information from the Franklin County Municipal Court website and stealing people’s identities. Judge Gregory L. Frost sentenced Katura Mozelle, 23, today in U.S. District Court in Columbus on charges of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud…

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UK: Police apologize over data loss incidents but need crystal ball at this point

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Dissent

This is somewhat painful to read. Maybe Jack Nicholson’s available to do a movie we could call, “As Bad as It Gets?” James Burke reports: Police in Gloucestershire have admitted to a data loss incident involving confidential details, although the force also confesses it has no idea what information was lost. An investigation by the…

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