9News reports: A stolen laptop containing sensitive data has caused a security breach for Douglas County Schools. The district sent a letter to all of its employees recently stating the stolen computer contained some workers’ Social Security numbers and bank account information. Read more on 9News. And where was this laptop at the time of…
UK: ICO hit by data security breach
Desire Athow reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the entity in charge of making sure British organisations (and the government) keep private data secure, has been hit by a data security breach. The snafu was published in the ICO’s annual report and the body has, according to the Times, been less than amicable when it comes…
TotalBank Data Breach Could Be Comprehensive
Jeanne Price reports: Customers of TotalBank in southern Florida can expect an unwelcome letter in the mail following a compromise of the institution’s computer network. So far, details of the data breach are sketchy but the intrusion into their system appears extensive. “We recently discovered that an unauthorized individual obtained access to our computer network. Based on…
Global Firm AECOM Notifies Workers Of Payroll Hack
Jeanne Price reports: With clients in over 150 countries around the glove, architectural and building firm AECOM employs thousands of individuals worldwide. Now many of those workers and their former colleagues have become part of the latest US corporate payroll data breach. AECOM is an acronym for Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, Operations and Maintenance – the company’s five…
Dutch health boards to ditch intimate questions to parents, teenagers
DutchNews.nl reports: Local health boards are to revise the list of often personal questions they ask parents about their children because many are considered ‘unwanted interference’, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday. Parents will no longer be asked about their income, psychiatric well-being or how often their children clean their teeth following numerous complaints, the paper states….
Guantánamo nurse refuses to force-feed prisoners
This may seem a tad off-topic for this blog, but I could not less this go unnoticed: AP reports: A US navy nurse has refused to force-feed prisoners who are on an extended hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, the first protest of its kind at the detention centre, a rights lawyer and US official has said….