From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement: A former Social Services Support Officer at Dorset County Council has been prosecuted for accessing Social Care records without authorisation. An internal investigation found that Ms Shipsey had inappropriately accessed the Social Care records without any business need to do so. The records related to four individuals known…
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FL: Baker Co. student could face felony for reportedly hacking school’s WiFi to avoid doing school work
Nick Perreault reports: A 12-year-old student could face a felony charge after reportedly hacking into the Baker County Middle School’s WiFi about two weeks ago, all because the student didn’t want to do school work. On Nov. 13, the student used a school-issued laptop to get the school’s IP address. Using another student’s cell phone,…
Montgomery County Public Schools incident was bigger than initially thought: UPDATE
In October, Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland notified parents after one of their high schools in Naviance was hacked. At the time, the high school reported that it had suffered a brute force attack on October 3 that impacted 1,343 Naviance student accounts and one parent/guardian account at Wheaton High School. On November 25,…
PA: UPMC Susquehanna admits employee snooped in co-worker’s medical records
John Beauge reports: UMPC Susquehanna admits that one of its employees improperly looked at the protected health information of a co-worker who had missed work following a brutal assault. The admission is contained in a letter attached to the Lycoming County court complaint of Taylor Fausnaught, who is suing the health system and employee Tasha…
Google Fires Four Employees, Citing Data-Security Violations
Bloomberg reports: Google told staff on Monday that it fired four employees for what the company called “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies. Alphabet Inc.’s Google sent an email describing the decision to employees titled “Securing our data,” according to a copy of the document obtained by Bloomberg News. The company confirmed the…
Dallas man convicted of computer fraud, aggravated identity theft in hacking of New York-based tech company
Mathew Richards reports: Following a five-day trial, a Dallas man was convicted on Friday on charges for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of a New York-based technology company, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 30-year-old Tyler C. King…