Mark Ballard reports: Staff working for Her Majesty’s Courts Service have breached security on the government database that stores personal data about everyone in the UK. Also, local authorities sacked 26 employees last year for snooping on personal data stored on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System (CIS), which, with 90…
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Utah database breached for suspected political motives
For those readers who do not also read DataBreaches.net, there’s a situation in Utah that is worthy of note here. Yesterday, a list of 1300 allegedly illegal aliens was leaked to media outlets and others. By tonight, the state had determined that the list came from a database maintained by the state’s Department of Workforce…
Ca: Prison staff win legal case after personal info leaked to inmates
Kathleen Harris reports: A group of federal prison guards has won a landmark legal case against the government of Canada after an employee list with home phone numbers, addresses and names of spouses circulated through the penitentiary housing dangerous psychopaths and sociopaths. Up to 400 staff of Ontario’s Joyceville Institution – from correctional officers right…
IA: Appeals court upholds ruling in ID theft case
Grant Schulte reports: Anyone who uses false personal information to commit fraud can be found guilty of identity theft in Iowa, even if he didn’t know the information belonged to someone else, the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The decision stemmed from the arrest of an illegal immigrant, Jose Abel Garcia, who was caught…