Vivienne Nicoll reports: Council chiefs have been severely censured for losing sensitive data about some of Glasgow’s worst sex offenders. And they were warned they faced unlimited fines unless immediate improvements were made to stop it happening again. The rap came after a computer stick containing personal details of registered sex offenders, victims and witnesses…
Category: Government Sector
MA: Rockland town employees’ old payroll info scattered in street
Not a good day to be a public employee in Massachusetts, it seems. Here’s the second breach report of the day, this one by John P. Kelly: An unknown number of canceled checks bearing Social Security and bank account numbers of Rockland town employees are missing after wind knocked them from a loaded recycling truck….
MA: Hingham to inform 1,300 employees of compromised personal data
Molly A. K. Connors reports: More than two weeks after a Hingham official inadvertently sent dozens of people a document containing the names and Social Security numbers of everyone who worked for the town last year, town officials said they will notify the 1,300 employees of the breach Wednesday afternoon through e-mail and first class…
When the road to ID theft is paved with good intentions
Nancy Amons reports that some Nashville, Tennessee flood victims discovered that their personal information was publicly available online after they submitted documentation such as canceled checks and other sensitive information online to obtain property tax relief. It seems that the Metro Assessor of Property had tried to make things easier for people to upload documentation…
NJ: Tenants can’t get answers on Guttenberg security breach
Residents of Guttenberg’s subsidized public housing projects are afraid their personal information could be misused now that the Guttenberg Housing Authority sent them letters this month saying a computer security breach allowed “an unauthorized individual” access to their personal files, including Social Security and credit card data. The letters were not specific, and GHA officials…
ID theft feared at Ont. government website
The Canadian Press reports: An NDP critic is blasting the Ontario government after it revealed there was a possible case of identity theft linked to its driver’s licence address change website. On Saturday the government issued a news release saying it had “temporarily disabled the online address change function and has launched an investigation.” Read…