Mike Durkin reports that federal charges have now been filed against John Hunt, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources employee accused of improperly accessing 5,000 residents’ information from the state driver’s license database: The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Hunt committed a federal crime during off-duty hours. Hunt is accused of illegally viewing the…
Category: Breaches
EU proposes new cybercrime reporting rules
BBC reports: Over 40,000 firms, including energy providers, banks and hospitals could be required to report cyber-break-ins under new rules proposed by the EU. It is part of a move to intensify global efforts to fight cybercrime. Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes said that Europe needed to improve how it dealt with cybersecurity. But firms…
Ex-St. Paul cop in data breach suit settles with state, attorneys say
Eric Roper reports: Attorneys for a former police officer whose driver’s license data was repeatedly breached said Tuesday that the state has agreed to conduct better audits and impose more safeguards of the often-misused drivers license database. The legal settlement between Anne Marie Rasmusson and the Department of Public Safety is one of the last…
Social network Path caught publishing users’ private data. Again.
Less than a week after social network Path settled with the US Federal Trade Commission for collecting childrens’ private information to the tune of $800,000 it has once again been caught publishing users’ private information. The social network and photo sharing mobile app has been automatically geotagging users’ photos even when they have completely disabled…