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| Personal data of 20,000 employees exposed in security breach - IRS | | | The personal data of about 20,000 U.S. Internal Revenue Service employees going back to 2007 or earlier may have been exposed on the Internet, but no general taxpayer information or records were part of the security breach, the agency said on Tuesday. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in a statement that an unencrypted thumb drive containing the information was plugged into an employee's unsecured home network, making the information potentially accessible to third parties online. He said the drive contained "sensitive personnel information, including names, Social Security numbers and addresses, of some employees, former employees and contracted employees." Koskinen said: "At this point, we have no direct evidence to indicate this personal information has been used for identity theft or other inappropriate uses." The 20,000 employees worked in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, the IRS said. |
| Italy court confirms Berlusconi ban from public office | |  Italy's highest appeals court on Tuesday confirmed a two-year ban from public office for centre-right leader and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over a conviction for tax fraud. Berlusconi lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said he was "extremely disappointed" by the ruling of the Court of Cassation, which diminishes Berlusconi's hopes of running as a candidate in elections for the European Parliament in May. Berlusconi had appealed against the ban handed down by a Milan appeals court in October last year.
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| FBI evaluating complaints about hacking by CIA, Senate panel - sources | | | By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is evaluating separate criminal referrals sent to the Justice Department by the CIA in its dispute with Senate investigators over access to documents about the agency's "enhanced interrogation" practices, officials familiar with the matter said. The CIA and one of its two main congressional overseers, the Senate Intelligence Committee, have traded accusations that each inappropriately intruded into computer systems containing highly classified data about the Bush-era practices, which human rights activists have described as torture. The CIA's inspector general sent the Justice Department a "crimes report" about allegations that the agency had intruded into a computer network that was supposed to be exclusively reserved for Senate investigators. The allegations suggested that the CIA did this in an apparent attempt to learn how the congressional investigators got access to documents that the agency deemed to be covered by legal privilege. |
| U.S. NSA records all calls in targeted foreign nation - report | |  The U.S. National Security Agency has created a surveillance system that is recording all the phone calls in an undisclosed foreign country, allowing it to play back any conversation up to 30 days later, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The newspaper cited unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the system as well as documents supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who since last year has leaked extensive data revealing sweeping American spying activities.
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| Salvation Army settles long-running religious discrimination suit | | | By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Salvation Army has settled a lawsuit brought a decade ago by now-former employees who accused the U.S. charity of pressuring them to follow its religious mission while they worked on government-funded social service projects. The organization's greater New York division agreed to provide employees of its government-funded services including daycare centers and homeless shelters a document saying it will not ask about their religious beliefs or require them to profess adherence to its religious policies, said the New York Civil Liberties Union, which represented the plaintiffs. The document will also state that employees are not required to participate in religious activities in the workplace, the NYCLU said in a statement. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein, who in 2005 had dismissed some claims against the Salvation Army, approved the settlement in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday. |
| U.S. authorities arrest 14 in porn website involving 251 children | | | Authorities have arrested 14 men in a secret, members-only child pornography website that involved 251 children, mostly boys, in the United States and five other countries, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Some of the men assumed female online personas to connect with the children, who ranged in age from three to 17 years, on popular social networks, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The alleged U.S. victims, who have been identified and contacted by authorities, were from 39 U.S. states. "Never before in the history of this agency have we identified and located this many minor victims in the course of a single child-exploitation investigation," said Daniel Ragsdale, the ICE deputy director. |
| Delhi policewoman smothered to death by fiance | | | New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) A 20-year-old Delhi Police woman constable was smothered to death by her fiance at a guest house here, officials said Tuesday. The body of Priyanka Rani was found inside a room of the guest house in west Delhi's Janakpuri area by a staff member Tuesday morning. Rani along with her fiance Mohit, employed with the Indian Navy but currently placed under suspension, checked into the guest house Sunday evening. "On Sunday, he telephoned her requesting to meet at some place in west Delhi. |
| Woman summoned for cheating husband | | | Additional Sessions Judge Ashutosh Kumar said that prima facie, the miscarriage was caused by the woman without the consent of her husband, and as such an offence under section 312 of the Indian Penal Code was committed by her. The court said the woman knew about her pregnancy before her marriage and she had not disclosed this fact to her husband before tying the knot and had thereby deceived him. |
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