BBC reports: The personal details of 112,000 French police officers have been uploaded to Google Drive in a security breach just a fortnight after two officers were murdered at their home by a jihadist. A mutual organisation which provides extra health and other insurance benefits for police says the details were uploaded by a disgruntled…
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JP: Teen faces charges over breach of online school grades management system
Kyodo News reports: A second arrest warrant was served on a 17-year-old boy Monday over the theft of some 210,000 digital files containing the grades of students in Saga Prefecture schools, police said. The boy, a resident of the city of Saga, is suspected of accessing an online system used by the prefecture’s public junior…
Dark web drug dealer and hacker to pay out £17,000 and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work
Victoria Wheldon reports: A Scots computer hacker who used the ‘dark web’ to sell drugs has been ordered to pay £17,000 in compensation and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work. David Trail set up and administered the Topix2 website, an online black market site which he used to buy and sell drugs including Diazepam…
Mercy Medical Center Redding notifies patients after discovering NaviHealth case manager was working under a stolen identity
Typically, when an entity posts a link to a security breach notification on their web site, it’s a normal or small font. If you’re lucky, it’s positioned so that you stand a chance of spotting it immediately. But Mercy Medical Center Redding wanted to make sure they caught their patients’ attention with this graphic on…
AL governor axes officials, asks FBI for help after finding unauthorized access to state’s criminal justice database
Paul Gattis reports: Gov. Robert Bentley has fired a high-ranking official in the state department of finance and placed a second on leave after concerns of a computer security breach emerged. The breach came to light following an investigation by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, according to a letter Bentley wrote June 10 to the FBI….
Former ProMedica therapist convicted of illegally obtaining patient data
An update on a previously noted insider breach case. From NBC24: A former ProMedica respiratory therapist has been convicted in federal court of illegally obtaining health information while employed at Bay Park Hospital. A trial began against Jamie Knapp, 27, began on Monday in U.S. District Court in Toledo. The former ProMedica employee was tried…