Ten data security breaches in three years have taken place at South Wales Police, it has emerged. A member of staff was prosecuted for accessing and disclosing “intelligence information and previous convictions”. In another case, an employee resigned after being found guilty of charges relating to unauthorised access of the force’s computer system. A worker…
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Ohio drivers sue over sale of their data
The Ohio Department of Public Safety and Bureau of Motor Vehicles has been hit with a potentially costly class action lawsuit alleging that two senior employees contravened federal privacy laws when they authorized the sale of information in the state’s databanks. “At this point we don’t know what motivated them to sell the data,” says…
Fourth State Dept. snooper pleads guilty
William A. Celey became the latest State Department employee to plead guilty to illegally accessing passport files. Celey had been charged with unauthorized computer access and will be sentenced in October. As reported on Examiner.com: In pleading guilty, Celey admitted that between June 22, 2004, and July 15, 2004, he logged onto the PIERS database…
NSW seeks laws to stop wave of ID frauds
Tough new laws aimed at clamping down on identity fraud are being drafted by the NSW government. Almost half a million Australians lost a combined $997 million to identity fraud in the last year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS attributed the crime wave to the rapid expansion of internet technology,…