Luke Rosiak reports: Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission. Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller…
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Ex-employee of Alaska Department of Public Safety employee stole personal information during robbery – AST
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…
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…