Carol Ann Alaimo reports: Somewhere in the halls of Sahuarita Middle School walks a boy who already is a deadbeat debtor. He isn’t old enough to qualify for credit. But at the house his family was evicted from recently, someone used his name and Social Security number to rack up a $950 unpaid bill with…
Category: Breaches
State Department Employee Sentenced for Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport Files
A State Department employee was sentenced yesterday to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing 70 confidential passport application files. The sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. Susan Holloman, 58, of Washington, D.C., was also ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in the District of Columbia…
FL: Lawsuit against state officials for privacy violation moves forward
Evan Brown writes; Plaintiff sued the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and a number of state officials for violation of the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, 18 USC §2721-25. Plaintiff claimed that the defendants turned over a large amount of protected personal information to a private party, and that that party then…
Tor software updated after hackers crack into systems
John Leyden reports: Privacy-conscious users of the Tor anonymiser network have been urged to upgrade their software, following the discovery of a security breach. Two of seven directory authorities and a metrics data server were compromised in a hack discovered earlier this month, Tor developer Roger Dingledine explains. The three servers were taken offline and…