Add Lower Platte North Natural Resource District to the list of Greenshades clients whose employees are have been alerted to attempted identity theft involving tax refund fraud. According to Wahoo Newspaper, 15 of 18 NRD employees had been told by the IRS that an attempt to file their taxes had been made from a suspicious source. Although…
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AU: Return to sender: unions royal commission apologises over privacy blunder
Paul Karp reports: The royal commission into trade union governance and corruption has apologised to the construction union after giving its confidential documents to another party. On Wednesday the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union alerted the royal commission that in a further breach it had sent the union confidential information of another company’s employees, the…
BS: Activists To Send ‘Leak’ Complaint To Data Watchdog
Neil Hartnell reports: The Save the Bays activist group yesterday informed the data protection watchdog it will submit a formal complaint over the leaking of its private e-mails, once its own investigation and legal analysis is completed. Ferron Bethell, the attorney acting for the Save the Bays plaintiffs, branded the leak as “one of the…
GA: Non-profit director leaves town and abandons donations and clients’ personal information
WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…
Security education outfit EC-Council dishes out ransomware online
First it was a hospital serving up ransomware to web site visitors. Now the website of the EC-Council, who are responsible for the Ethical Hacker certification, is reportedly serving up the Angler exploit kit to infect PCs. And as we heard with the Norfolk General Hospital, it seems to be difficult to notify them and get a response from the…
Hacker breaches USA Cycling, personal information at risk
David Bisson reports: A hacker recently breached the systems of USA Cycling and potentially compromised members’ personal information. On Friday afternoon, USA Cycling, the official cycling organization recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), warned that it had suffered a “data security incident”. In an email sent out…