From the jailhouse-lawyers dept: Laura Clout of The Daily Express reports that 13 prisoners, including two serial rapists, have submitted claims for compensation of up to £30,000 each over a computer memory stick lost by a firm working for the Home Office, PA Consulting. The prisoners claim that that the loss of their personal data…
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Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Four Romanian men were arrested in Florida after being accused of skimming a Chase Bank ATM in Cicero, NY. They have been linked to similar schemes around the country. More. In Utah, Frank Miranda and his wife Valerie Pena were sentenced for conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Some of the…
AU: Security breach over SA secret files
Hendrik Gout of The Independent Weekly reports: Secret police intelligence so sensitive that people named in the documents can’t even see it appears to have been released into the public domain, prompting calls for an Anti-Corruption Branch investigation. The top-secret files may contain unproven allegations and name people who have not necessarily been convicted of…
UK: Police authority leave confidential complaint details on website
The Mirror reports that Cambridgeshire Police left confidential complaint details on its website for 6 days.
DHS: Information-sharing platform hacked
Ben Bain of FederalComputerWeek reports: The Homeland Security Department’s platform for sharing sensitive but unclassified data with state and local authorities was hacked recently, a DHS official has confirmed. The intrusion into the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) was confirmed to Federal Computer Week by Harry McDavid, the chief information officer for DHS’ Office of…
Airman indicted for bank fraud stole fellow airmen’s info
An airman assigned to the 19th Medical Support Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base was indicted last week for bank fraud in a scheme that involved him stealing the identities of at least seven other people. A copy of the indictment (pdf), provided to this site by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of…