The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to take action after MPs personal details were accidentally placed at risk on the MPs expenses database, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The expenses claims were accessible for a period of 21 hours, following IT maintenance work in July 2010 which inadvertently allowed those persons…
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CO: Informants outed in accidental Grand Junction data release
The Associated Press reports: The names of confidential drug informants, home addresses of sheriff’s deputies and troves of other sensitive data were made public for months because of a mistake by an employee of Mesa County’s technology department, officials said. Thousands of the internal records were accessible on the Internet starting in April until the…
WI: Former jail worker is accused of misconduct
Audits/checking logs works. I’m surprised that the employee was charged with a felony, though. Matthew Perenchio reports: A former Jackson County Jail worker has been charged with felony misconduct after being accused of improperly running criminal background checks on herself and her half-brother. Jennifer L. Stanley, 34, of Onalaska also faces a misdemeanor computer crime…
WA: ID theft bonanza left unsecured at state building
Tracy Vedder reports: TACOMA, Wash. — When we handed Lyle Lippel a set of documents that could have been used to steal his identity and cause financial ruin he said it was crazy and scary that the papers were so easy to find. Lippel’s private information was in a pile of paperwork dumped in plain…
Stonewalled? Guttenberg housing residents still worried
Back in August, I reported a breach involving the Guttenberg Housing Authority in New Jersey that had reportedly left many housing residents and housing applicants on the waiting list confused and worried due to the lack of information in the notifications. Three months later, Tricia Tirella of the Hudson Reporter reports that residents are still…
Jp: ‘Leaked MPD data’ out as book
As a follow-up to the breach reported here: A Tokyo publishing house has released a book containing what are believed to be Metropolitan Police Department antiterrorism documents that were leaked onto the Internet last month. Released by Dai-San Shokan Thursday, the book contains the personal information of Muslim residents in this country, such as their…