Parts of the report were redacted, indicated by x’s below. Executive Summary: The Office of Inspector General (OIG) performed a review of the Department of Education’s (Department) external web sites. This audit was conducted in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) as enacted by Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002,…
UCM notifying 7000 of Breach
The University of Central Missouri is notifying 7,000 students who were enrolled for the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006 that two computer reports containing their names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth were in two paper reports that were stolen. Source: KMBC
MA: Commonwealth Solar Breach
About 810 residents who had applied for the Massachusetts Commonwealth Solar rebate program had their personal information posted on a government Web site for nearly an hour, according to a notice from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The quasi-public agency that administers the program said a file containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of…
Privacy Groups Challenge Calif. Bill
A California bill seeking to create a new regulatory framework for consumer genomics firms that interpret genomic data but do not analyze samples at an in-house laboratory has raised red flags within the personalized medicine community and among privacy advocates. California state Senator Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley) earlier this year introduced SB 482, a…
New Breach Laws in Alaska and SC
On July 1, 2009, new laws will take effect in Alaska and South Carolina that will require entities that have experienced data security breaches involving personal information to notify affected individuals of the breaches. With these additions, a total of 44 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, will…
Stolen CS Stars Hard Drive Still Missing
When CS Stars had the misfortune to have two separate data breaches on the same date but three years apart, it may have created some confusion for the good folks over at the Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection. Their web site summarized the newest incident by reporting that 722,000 individuals had data stolen in the…