Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home

How many warnings would you give employees not to send work to their personal email accounts?  And why hasn’t a government agency deployed a software solution to prevent such transmissions?  Connor Jones reports: Four staffers at the UK’s F… Continue reading Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home→

School Districts Unaware BoardDocs Software Published Their Private Files

Mark Keierleber has an interesting and concerning update on the BoardDocs breach previously reported by DataBreaches on June 1: BoardDocs, a software tool used by thousands of school boards to track meeting minutes and store confidential information, h… Continue reading School Districts Unaware BoardDocs Software Published Their Private Files→

A guilty plea in the PowerSchool case still leaves unanswered questions

On June 6, 19-year-old Matthew D. Lane pleaded guilty in federal court in Massachusetts to one count each of conspiracy to commit cyber extortion, cyber extortion, unauthorized access to protected computers, and aggravated identity theft. The first two… Continue reading A guilty plea in the PowerSchool case still leaves unanswered questions→

Former CIA Analyst Sentenced to Over Three Years in Prison for Unlawfully Transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information

A former CIA analyst was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information to people who were not entitled to receive it, information which was publicly posted on social media platf… Continue reading Former CIA Analyst Sentenced to Over Three Years in Prison for Unlawfully Transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information→