Roberto Rodriguez, 54, formerly of Fort Lauderdale, FL, was convicted by a jury on July 29, 2009 of seventeen counts of exceeding his authorized access to a government computer. Rodriguez is scheduled to be sentenced on October 9, 2009, before U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch. Rodriguez, while an employee at the Social Security…
Category: Government Sector
Methinks he might protest too much
As someone who routinely makes snarky pronouncements about breaches, I was actually impressed by how Toronto Hydro handled their recent data breach. Yet some people were strongly critical. The facts of the breach, as I currently understand them are that: 179,000 Toronto Hydro customer account numbers were illegally accessed in the company’s e-billing system. Toronto…
Data of soldiers, patients found on P2P
The personal information of 200,000 soldiers and 20,245 hospital patients, along with other critical data from government networks, is being made to the public through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, according to testimony yesterday at a hearing of the House Government and Oversight Committee. The security breach included data like names, Social Security Numbers, addresses, illnesses, next…
Baytown releases banking info for 10,000 by mistake
Baytown officials have notified 10,019 people cited by red light cameras that some of their personal banking information mistakenly was released to a resident who had filed a public information request about the controversial traffic program, Mayor Stephen DonCarlos said Monday. The mayor stressed the resident who received the information has deleted a spreadsheet —…
Cardiff Council’s laptop thefts revealed
A councillor has criticised Cardiff council after discovering 22 laptops and seven computers have been stolen from civic offices in the last four years. Ramesh Patel said the revelation raised fears about the security of data held on computers in council buildings and the care that was taken with taxpayers’ cash. Read more in Wales…
ID theft ring allegedly bribed DMV employees
Counter-terrorism investigators busted an alleged identity theft ring whose members are suspected of bribing Department of Motor Vehicles employees in Inglewood and several states to provide fake documents. Los Angeles police, the FBI, DMV and District Attorney’s Office teamed up to track a Pakistani woman and 13 alleged accomplices, the Los Angeles Times reported on…