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Ca: Dark family secrets: Anonymous letter uncovers child welfare records

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

Here’s a news report of an insider privacy breach in Canada that is just…. awful. That is has resulted in severe psychological harm and trauma to one of those impacted  is not surprising. The incident, which you can read about here, involves records that are more than 30 years old that appear to have been…

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Former Santander bank manager pleads guilty to computer misuse crimes

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Dissent

Gareth Corfield reports: A former Santander bank manager has pleaded guilty to £15,000 worth of computer misuse crimes after her boyfriend talked her into giving him illicitly obtained customer information. This morning at the City of London Magistrates’ Court in England, Abiola Ajibade, 24, of Martock Court, Consort Road, Southwark, pleaded guilty to “causing a…

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Alleged CIA China turncoat Lee may have compromised U.S. spies in Russia too

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Dissent

And yet another example of how serious insider breaches can be.  Tom Winter, Ken Dilanian, and Jonathan Dienst report: The arrest last week of a former CIA officer suspected of spying for China exposed one of the most significant intelligence breaches in American history. But the damage is even worse than first reported, sources familiar…

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Mississippi student data accessed in Questar testing-vendor breach

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Dissent

Bracey Harris reports: Mississippi education officials were unable to say Friday how many students’ personal information might have been obtained in the wake of a data breach at Questar one of the state’s testing vendors. The Mississippi Department of Education said in a statement Friday that an unauthorized user accessed the information of two districts…

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New York State Education Department Announces Breach of Data Held by Vendor Questar

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Dissent

Jan. 18 -State Education Department Announces Breach of Data Held by Vendor Questar The State Education Department’s grades 3-8 assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., experienced a data breach affecting a small number of students registered for computer-based testing (CBT) in spring 2017, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today. Questar reported that its preliminary analysis shows 52…

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UT: Bored student hacks into Taylorsville High School system

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Dissent

Marcos Ortiz reports: A teen claimed boredom caused him to hack into a school’s computer network. It happened during last year’s school year at Taylorsville High School.  But the case was recently unsealed by a judge. The 18-year-old who doesn’t want his name disclosed said he has not been charged with a crime but has been told…

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