Kable reports: The Department for Work and Pensions has reported data leaks from paper but none from electronic devices over the year. Its resources accounts (PDF) for 2009-10 reveal that in April 2009 it lost paper documents from its offices which contained the names, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and bank details of 145…
Category: Government Sector
Laptop stolen from PCC employee’s car contained SSN of 2,900 unemployed Oregonians
A car owned by an employee of Portland Community College was broken into on Thursday, Aug 5. Among the stolen items was a data-storage device containing the names and Social Security numbers of an estimated 2,900 Multnomah County participants in the Oregon Food Stamp Employment Transition Program, also known as OFSET. The employee had been…
VA Data Breaches Go Live
Bob Brewin alerts us to another new resource on data breaches: Today the Veterans Affairs Department started posting online its monthly data breach reports as part of its ongoing transparency thing, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told a press briefing this morning. He said the latest report (for July) might not make it to…
Add Boise to those impacted by Mercer breach
The Associated Press reports that the names and personal information, including SSN, of about 300 current and former Boise city employees were on a backup computer tape lost by a courier used by Mercer to transport the tape to a storage facility in Washington.
Terry Childs gets four year sentence
Robert McMillan reports: A City of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city’s network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday. Terry Childs was convicted in April of violating California’s hacking laws after he refused to hand over administrative control to the city’s FiberWAN network back in…
UK: Council slated for sex data blunder
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…