Members of the Army National Guard who could be affected by the theft of a laptop containing their personal data, will be notified through an official letter, National Guard officials said today. “I immediately requested a list of any Wisconsin soldiers that may be affected,” said Brig. Gen. Don Dunbar, Adjutant General of Wisconsin and…
3,300 false tax returns file in names of prisoners
So…. would you count this one as a government breach? A former Chicago man living in Israel since 2003, two of his sons and a son-in-law living in Chicago and Los Angeles were arrested and are among 10 defendants indicted on federal tax fraud conspiracy charges for allegedly seeking to obtain more than $35 million…
Dr.InfoSec helps solve school data breach
Although the school district is not named, this sounds like the Fayetteville breach recently reported… On July 29th, as I was following up on a story that flashed across my Twitter stream about 30 certified employees of a school district finding themselves victims of ID theft, I found something that should not have been there….
Judge Orders U. of Louisville Nursing Student Reinstated
A federal judge has ordered the University of Louisville to permit a nursing student who had been expelled for writing blog posts about her patients, gun rights, religion, and other issues to re-enroll. […] The university expelled Ms. Yoder in February, saying she had violated the nursing school’s honor code by identifying herself as a…
NH inmate had corrections officers’ data
The Associated Press reports that a New Hampshire State Prison inmate was found in possession of a list containing details — including social security numbers — of Corrections Department workers. Officials believe that the inmate might have obtained the list when he worked at a warehouse, where a copy of the list was waiting to…
Employees sacked for ID card data breach
The database in question holds data on 92 million people in the U.K. About 200,000 people have access to it. If they cannot adequately secure the database from misuse by employees, well……. Nine local authority workers have been sacked after illegally accessing personal details of the public held on the government’s national identity database. In…