Some Battle Creek city employees are getting free identity protection help after Mayor Mark Behnke posted a document with personnel information to a public Web site. Information on about 65 city workers, including six Social Security numbers, was listed on a city check registry that Behnke put online and linked to using his Twitter.com account,…
Category: Government Sector
NYS Worker Pleads to ID theft
As a follow-up to an insider breach reported in April, Walter Healey, a former employee of New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance pleaded guilty to stealing the identities of taxpayers and will now have to pay restitution and serve 1 ½ to 4 years in prison upon sentencing in October. AP also provides…
Manchester City Council breaches the Data Protection Act
From the press release (pdf) from the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Manchester City Council in breach of the Data Protection Act after the theft of two laptop computers from the Town Hall, one of which contained personal details relating to 1,754 employees at local schools. Neither of the laptops…
NYS tax department worker pleads not guilty to ID theft
This incident was originally reported in April 2009, but the Associated Press provides additional details on what investigators found. Walter Healey, the former employee, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday on four counts of identity theft, unlawful possession of personal identification, tampering with public records and official misconduct.. Last year, another employee noticed irregularities in packages…
NY: Ex-Penfield school district worker accused of computer trespass
Owens F. Shepard, a former Penfield Central School District employee, was arrested Friday on charges of using the district’s state Department of Motor Vehicles account to illegally access nearly 150 records. A news release said Shepard illegally accessed the account between June 2007 and May of this year, “including searches apparently done for the sake…
UK: Personal data exposed on website
From Kevin Peachey and Bill Wilson of the BBC News: Personal data including the signatures of recipients has been exposed to those tracking deliveries on the Parcelforce website, the BBC has discovered. A failure in the system allowed people using the mail tracing service access to the name, postcode and signature of various addressees. The…