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Minnesota agency accidentally reveals personal info of employees

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Dissent

Politics in Minnesota reports that the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) accidentally revealed employees’ home towns instead of “town of duty station” in response to a freedom of information law request that also requested state employees’ name, salary, job title, and agency. The information was posted to a web site by whoever had requested it,…

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Lost or Missing in the UK

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Dissent

Brian Meechan of BBC Wales reports that in 2007, a CD with the personal details of more than 2,300 crime victims was lost in the post by Gwent Police, but none of those affected were ever notified because the police decided that the data could not be accessed. The CD had been password-protected, but the…

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HK: Privacy Commissioner to investigate police data leakage

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dissent

As a follow-up to what appears to be one toomany file-sharing leaks, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data  has ordered an investigation.

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CA: Stolen police laptops had access to county data system

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dissent

Laura Norton of The Press Democrat reports that four laptops with access to personal information on the department’s more than 1,000 employees were stolen from Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department police vehicles. While the laptops were in the police vehicles, they could access the county data system, although there is no indication that the thieves did…

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USAID.gov compromised, malware and exploits served

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Dissent

Dancho Danchev of ZDnet reportsthat the Azerbaijan section at the United States Agency for International Development (azerbaijan.usaid.gov) has been compromised and is embedded with malware and exploits serving scripts since approximately March 1. He also provides a dissection of the attack. There’s a YouTube video from AVG as well, although it’s either somewhat blurry or…

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HK: File sharing error exposes police data on the internet

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Dissent

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.

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