A Deputy U.S. Marshal has been charged by indictment with unlawfully obtaining cell phone location information by misusing a law enforcement service, and later making false statements about his use of that service. Adrian Pena, 48, of Del Rio, Texas, made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday in the Western District of Texas. According…
Category: Breaches
Don’t rely on a business associate agreement if the business associate is Iron Mountain (UPDATED)
Update of June 15: My tweets about the situation described below resulted in Iron Mountain’s Twitter team contacting their internal team, who called me. As of yesterday afternoon, the patient records that had supposedly been securely destroyed more than a year ago were finally securely destroyed. I was also told by customer service that the…
Northern Territory woman to face court for alleged disclosure of confidential information after ICAC referral
Jano Gibson reports: The Northern Territory’s anti-corruption commissioner says his staff “must act with the utmost integrity” after police issued a woman with a notice to appear in court for alleged disclosure of confidential information. Earlier today, NT Police said detectives from the Special References Unit had executed a warrant and seized a 23-year-old woman’s…
PSNI data breach discovered after an officer tried to stop family trip to US
Allison Morris reports: A huge data breach that resulted in the details of 152 people being unlawfully handed over to the US authorities was discovered after a police officer wrongfully intervened to stop a family travelling to America on holiday. The Belfast Telegraph yesterday revealed that the Police Ombudsman, the Information Commissioner and the Policing Board…