George Brown reports: A former Regions Bank employee is due in court today in connection with an identity theft ring. Investigators say Kimbriuna Dyer used her job to access information. Read more on WREG.
Connecticut Attorney General Jepsen Forms Permanent Department on Privacy, Data Security within Office of the Attorney General
March 11, 2015 – Attorney General George Jepsen today announced the creation of a new department within the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General – the Privacy and Data Security Department – that will work exclusively on investigations and litigation related to privacy and data security. In 2011, Attorney General Jepsen appointed a multidisciplinary Privacy Task…
For 3 months Hillary Clinton’s email access was unencrypted, vulnerable to spies
I’ve studiously avoided reporting on this when the purpose was solely political, but there is a security point to be made. Robert Hackett reports: Security firm Venafi has found that Clinton’s email server may have been open to foreign intelligence snoops when traveling abroad. On Tuesday, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her…
Identity Theft, Tax Fraud Snares Prisoners
I’ve covered some of these cases previously on this site and phiprivacy.net, but it’s worth noting as a vulnerable population. Joe Palazzolo reports: A raft of federal prosecutions has uncovered tax-fraud schemes involving the theft of U.S. prisoners’ social-security numbers, many times stolen by corrections employees. Last year alone, federal courts meted out prison sentences…
Over 100 data breaches voluntarily reported to OAIC in past year
Leon Spencer reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has revealed that it received more than 100 voluntary data breach notifications in the 12 months since changes to the country’s Privacy Act 1988 came into effect in March 2014. The OAIC said on Thursday that it had received 104 voluntary data breach notifications from the industry, 14,064 privacy…
UK: Mass Surveillance: Intelligence Staff Sacked
Sky News reports: A number of British intelligence staff have been sacked for inappropriately accessing personal information, it has emerged. […] When asked by Sky News for further details about why intelligence staff were sacked, the committee’s spokeswoman MP Hazel Blears replied: “I think we say in the report that these incidents have been extremely rare….