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Archives officials grilled on the Hill over missing data drives

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Dissent

Max Cacas reports: So, why can’t the National Archives hang on to its computer hard drives? That’s the question that the House Information Policy, Census and National Archives wants answered. Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Missouri), is chairman of the panel, a part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The theft or loss of…

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Military lags in safeguarding officers’ identities

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Dissent

Charlie Reed of Stars and Stripes reports on the military’s progress – or lack thereof – in addressing an August 2008  report by PublicResources.org that revealed that hundreds of thousands military officers’ Social Security numbers were publicly available in government and commercial databases, including the Congressional Record,  W.S. Hein, LexisNexis,  and Westlaw. It seems that…

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Farmers bank account details lost by Rural Payments Agency

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Dissent

Caroline Stocks reports: Thousands of farmers’ bank account details have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) after the Government body lost two back-up tapes of confidential data belonging to all English farmers. The RPA, which administers the single payment system of EU subsidy to English farmers, for the Department of Environment Food and…

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Former state tax department employee arrested

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Dissent

The Associated Press reports: Louisiana State Police say a former employee of the state Department of Revenue faces nine felony charges, including theft and unauthorized use of credit card information. Detectives say 39-year-old Joy Lynn Aikens, of Prairieville, was arrested Tuesday on one count of malfeasance in office, two counts of identity theft and six…

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Tennessee man pleads guilty to ID theft, fraud involving military credit accounts

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Dissent

The Associated Press reports that Deldrick Toles, a former Fort Campbell soldier, has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to identity theft and bank fraud. A news release indicated that Toles “admitted to defrauding the Army Air Force Exchange Service by using Military Star account numbers belonging to others to…

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UK: ‘Senstive information posted’ on town hall website

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Dissent

Data protection rules have come under the microscope after residents’ driving licences and utility bills were allegedly posted on a council’s website. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is now investigating complaints made about Ashford council’s online planning archive, which contains scans of documents dating back to 1984. Usually such files are limited to letters, application…

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