I was waiting to see what would happen with this one. Now I know. In a story headlined “Denver VA blames TV station for data breach,” Tom Roeder reports: The Department of Veterans Affairs in Denver is blaming a television station for a data breach that officials say compromised the personal information of 508 patients….
Category: Theft
ZW: Raid on newsroom justified: Nyambirai
Nehanda Radio reports: The legal counsel for Econet Wireless’ banking subsidiary Steward Bank, Tawanda Nyambirai, says Thursday’s raid on online news agency, The Source, was justified. Nyambirai, together with Steward Bank’s acting chief executive officer, Lance Mambondiani, addressed a chaotic Press conference on the complex matter in Harare yesterday — that pits the right of…
Westmont College professor’s laptop with applicant information stolen from car
These statements strike me as potentially mutually exclusive: “On December 14, 2014, a college laptop was stolen from a professor’s car that was briefly parked at a gas station.” “we take the security of your personal information very seriously” — from a breach notification by Westmont College. Did Westmont College have a policy in place that required…
UK: Children’s details lost and sent to wrong place by Derby City Council employees
The Derby Telegraph reports: Derby children’s personal details have been lost and posted to the wrong address this year by city council staff. The paper filed under freedom of information and found out more about the Derby City Council‘s breaches over the past 12 months. Incidents included: a lost notepad containing details of cases “review…
In: Decoder of secret information stolen, security agencies panic
From the where-is-Captain-Midnight-when-you-need-him dept.: Theft of an electronic instrument worth around Rs 3 lakh [$4816.53 – Dissent] from the building of Dang district superintendent of police, Ahwa, has created panic among top national security agencies. Sources in police claim that the stolen device is a decoder of encrypted secret code language used by intelligence agencies to…
E. K. and Company notifies clients of stolen hard drive with financial information
I haven’t seen one of these “the data can’t be accessed without specialized software” reassurances in quite a while: Mark Riley, Inc. dba E. K. and Company (“E. K. and Company”) is an accounting and payroll processing company. On January 19, 2015, E. K. and Company’s office was broken into and a hard drive was…