Rachel Cohen reports on a hacking incident involving Corp-Students of Georgetown, Inc. (“The Corp.”). Former Georgetown student Justice Suh pleaded guilty on one count of computer fraud for hacking The Corp’s email system. The federal government charged Suh in D.C. federal court in April 2019, and the U.S. government representative in this case recommended a…
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DPP employee who had ‘a nosey’ in murder file gets 11 month sentence
Tom Tuite reports: A civil servant in the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been been given an 11-month sentence for disclosing sensitive information about the arrest of a suspect in a dissident republican murder case. Service officer Jonathan Lennon (35) from Clonee, Dublin 15, who admitted having a “nosey” in the…
UK: Recent enforcement actions by the ICO deal with employees behaving badly
From the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK, news about two cases involving employees behaving badly. One case involved a housing association employee snooping in records without justification, and the other involved a Restorative Justice Caseworker who sent personal data on victims and offenders to her home email address. A former customer services officer at…
Just when you think you’ve seen your share of stupid privacy breaches, there’s this one….
“Human error” covers a lot of breaches. Sometimes the errors are truly accidental. Other times, they are errors in judgement. Kerry Campbell reports: P.E.I.’s privacy commissioner says an employee of a dental office on P.E.I. disclosed sensitive, personal health information belonging to more than 1,000 patients, to a member of that staff person’s family. The…
MO: Data security breach affects thousands of students of Jefferson City Public Schools
A now-suspended employee of Jefferson City Public Schools transferred student files containing medical information and student identification numbers to a personal email account, the district said in a news release Wednesday. The district said it recently determined the employee transferred the files into a personal Gmail account, which is a violation of district policy. The…
Two former employees booked for stealing data from their former company
More rogue employees. This time, at Specality Polyfilm Pvt Ltd. Read more at: Times of India.