Mark Ballard of The Inquirer reports that one Glasgow City Council worker was fired and another resigned before he could be fired after they were caught snooping into the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information Systems (CIS) database. The database forms the core of the government’s identity card scheme and contains 85 million…
Category: Government Sector
NZ: Police investigate alleged leak from DNA database
Police are investigating a claim an Environmental Science and Research worker has made an “inappropriate disclosure” from the national DNA profile databank. ESR said today a criminal investigation had started. “A staff member has been suspended pending the outcome of the police and internal investigations,” a spokeswoman said. The alleged security breach was the first…
Government laptops stolen in Belfast
UTV News reports: An urgent investigation has been launched into what material was taken from the corporate human resources offices over the weekend. All the machines were password-protected, marked and serial numbers recorded. Detectives have been called in. A spokesman for the Department of Finance and Personnel said: “In view of the nature of corporate…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Paul D. Gale, the owner of Roadhouse Grill & Tavern, has been arrested on charges he made a fraudulent insurance claim and collected phony charges using customers’ credit card numbers. More. Gerry Lynn McAfee was sentenced to 33 months in prison for stealing the identity of a Vietnam War veteran and…
UK: Stolen RAF vice files spark blackmail fear
More details emerge on a breach reported in 2008… David Hencke of Guardian reports: Sensitive files detailing the extra marital affairs, drug taking and use of prostitutes by very senior officers in the RAF have been stolen, raising fears within the Ministry of Defence that personnel could be vulnerable to blackmail. Up to 500 people…
Indiana agency sent 4,500 social security numbers to wrong companies
Eric Bradner of the Evansville & Courier Press reports that Indiana’s unemployment agency, the Department of Workforce Development, accidentally sent the social security numbers of 4,500 out-of-work Hoosiers to the wrong companies due to a printing error by Pitney Bowes Management Services. It was less than one week ago that the New Jersey Department of…