The South China Morning Post has a report that Sheung Shui police data containing sensitive information have leaked onto the internet through file-sharing software Foxy. Subscription required to read the whole story, but by now, I suspect most of this site’s readers can pretty much guess what happened.
Category: Government Sector
Lost in the mail? 3,700 NYC employees’ Social Security numbers
Kathleen Lucadamo of the Daily News reports that documents containing the Social Security numbers of 3,700 members of the Office of Staff Analysts union went missing after New York City’s Office of Payroll Administration mailed them to union headquarters. The package, sent “certified, return-receipt mail” – never arrived. There is no indication as to why…
Evicted OK child welfare worker leaves sensitive records behind
In what appears to be yet another breach involving paper records, Jay F. Marks of The Oklahoman reports that the Oklahoma Department of Human Services has opened an investigation into how a child welfare worker’s records ended up in possession of a local news station, KWTV-9. The records, which included names, Social Security numbers, contact…
ID: Computer Disk with Personal Information of Site Employees Lost
Personal information for thousand of current and former Idaho National Laboratory employees may be at risk. The Department of Energy’s Office of Health, Safety and Security said a computer disk containing information like first and last name, date of birth and social security numbers, was lost during shipment on January 30. […] While in its…
Another stolen FEMA laptop highlights data protection problems within the agency
Diane Krieger Spivak of the Post-Tribune reports that a laptop containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on approximately 50 victims of the September’s floods was stolen from a housing inspector’s car on November 4. There was no explanation of why a housing inspector was in possession of the laptop. A FEMA spokesperson acknowledged…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: John Shiefer, the Los Angeles computer security consultant who turned thousands of computers into zombies, was sentenced to four years in prison. More. Four Arizona men accused of spending more than $1 million using stolen credit cards are being held in a Maricopa County jail; they allegedly obtained the card numbers…