U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announced that U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced Patricia Marie Fowler (age 30, of Palmetto), the former information technology (IT) technician for the Suncoast Community Health Centers (SCHC) located in Ruskin, Florida, to 18 months in federal prison for committing computer intrusions causing damage of at least $17,000. The…
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FL: Thousands of voters’ personal information left in dumpster
Michael George reports that 1,000 to 2,000 voters’ petitions were dumped, unshredded, in a dumpster in Hillsborough County. … The petitions are essentially meaningless, since Norman got on the ballot anyway, but they contained voters’ names, voter registration numbers, addresses, dates of birth, political affiliation, and signature. […] So who dumped the petitions? The Hillsborough County…
UK: First monetary penalties served for serious data protection breaches
The Information Commissioner today served two organizations with the first monetary penalties for what he characterized as serious breaches of the Data Protection Act. The first penalty, of £100,000, was issued to Hertfordshire County Council for two serious incidents where council employees faxed highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients. The first case, involving…
Insurance Glitch Affects AARP Customers
A Glen Burnie man helped uncover an error in the AARP insurance program that sent life insurance reviews to the wrong customers, compromising their identities…… “I looked at the form, and I was shocked. It didn’t have my name on it, phone number, date of birth or my policy number. It had someone else’s personal…
RCMP investigate WorkLink privacy breach
Erin McCracken reports: Hundreds of confidential client files are missing at a Colwood employment agency. West Shore RCMP is investigating after they were notified Nov. 5 of the potential privacy breach — five weeks after documents were first noticed missing at WorkLink Employment Society. Read more on Goldstream Gazette.
Ca: Colwood employment centre loses data on 212 clients
RCMP are investigating a possible privacy breach at a Colwood employment centre, after the personal information of more than 200 clients went missing. Work Link, a non-profit organization that helps people find jobs, misplaced the personal files of 212 people, said West Shore RCMP spokesman Cpl. Scott Hilderley. The files contain “pretty sensitive information,” including…