Emails from the Argentine mistress of married South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford were leaked to the press by a hacker, according to the Latin American siren at the centre of a political scandal in the US Deep South. The emails were obtained by South Carolina newspaper The State back in December but kept on ice…
Category: Breaches
Alaska and SC data breach laws go into effect
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…
Airport cop sued for invasion of privacy
Christopher Sorey worked as a police officer for the Smyrna-Rutherford County Airport in Tennessee from August 2005 to November 2008. And according to a federal complaint, during that time he allegedly accessed the Integrative Criminal Justice Web Portal to obtain personal information on nine people, including their photographs, Social Security numbers, and addresses. In one…
‘Peeping Tom Landlord’ pleads guilty
The man prosecutors dubbed the “Peeping Tom Landlord” could be peering from behind prison bars for a long time now that he’s admitted to using electronic devices to videotape women who lived in his Norristown apartment buildings. Thomas Daley, 46, formerly of the 1000 block of Spring City Road, Phoenixville, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County…