KTVA reports: More than 1,000 people were identified as potentially having personal information “compromised” after an employee with the Division of Statewide Services removed several documents from the office, according to Alaska State Troopers. Troopers said the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s Financial Crimes Unit began investigating thefts at the Department of Public Safety (DPS) building, in…
Category: Insider
Ca: Victim of arson spree questions ICBC’s handling of privacy breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach that I had described as one of the worst insider breaches at its time – because it put lives at serious risk and some victims were firebombed or shot at. Mi-Jung Lee and Kendra Mangione recently interviewed one of the victims, who continues to have concerns about the handling…
Big Brother Watch calls for stiffer penalties for PNSI breaches
67 officers or staff of the Police Service in Northern Ireland have been investigated for police computer misuse over the last three years, it has been revealed. Suspected data protection breaches involved inappropriate access to PSNI systems. Read more on The Nationalist for more details on the cases.
US charges 104 in Florida in latest ID theft-fraud roundup
AP reports: Federal authorities have charged 104 people with numerous identity theft and fraud offenses in the latest South Florida crackdown on a rampant problem involving tens of thousands of stolen personal identities. […] In one of the largest cases, an employee at Miami’s Jackson Health System is accused of stealing identities from 24,000 people…
Covenant – Saginaw fires employee who improperly accessed 6,000 patients’ records
Brianna Owczarzak & Kate Nadolski report that an employee who improperly accessed thousands of patients’ files was fired after the Covenant in Saginaw detected the improper access through an audit: The hospital sent letters to more than 6,000 individuals who may have been affected. One of those people is Gabriella Economous. “I received a letter from…
NZ: Ex-cop charged with misuse of computer system
NZCity reports: A former police officer has appeared in an Auckland court accused of inappropriately accessing personal information during his time in the force. The 34-year-old faces 21 counts of accessing a computer system for a dishonest purpose having appeared in Auckland District Court on Wednesday. Read more on NZCity. Can anyone explain to me…