Freeborn County administration is investigating a suspected data
breach within law enforcement, according to Administrator John Kluever.
He said he and other information technology staff are looking into
the possibility that someone was unnecessarily viewing open
investigation files and disseminating parts of those files in the
public.
He declined to comment on how the suspected breach was discovered and
whether it has any connection to the upcoming election in the Freeborn
County Sheriff’s Office.
“If you access something for a nongovernmental purpose, that would be a data breach,” Kluever said.
He hopes to have more answers by the end of next week.
Kluever said if a data breach is found, state statute requires officials to contact anyone who might have been affected.
The Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office has been rife with controversy
and even an anonymously defamatory website, which also is under
investigation. It’s unclear whether the data breach is related.
Type: State Government
Area: Law Enforcement
First Noted: 31 October 2014 9:25 AM EST
Location: MN
Total Records: Unknown
Status: Not Monitoring for Follow Up (Not a client of SLC Security Services LLC)
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