Not as sexy, but never forget the risk from low-tech data theft. Jo Ann Lawrence reports: Garbage bags full of stolen mail along with bank statements, credit and debit cards found by Calgary Police in a southeast Calgary hotel room in May have resulted in dozens of charges against a Calgary duo. On May 12,…
Month: June 2014
U.S. indicts Romanian for crimes of hacker ‘Guccifer’
More bad news for “Guccifer,” the hacker who was arrested in Romania in January and sentenced last week to four years in jail. Reuters reports that he’s now been indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S.: Marcel Lazar Lehel, a former taxi driver, is already in a Romanian jail after being sentenced there…
Jersey City school district probing apparent data breach involving students’ personal info
Terrence T. McDonald reports: The Jersey City school district is investigating how a Sherman Avenue charter school obtained personal information about district students, data that parents believe the charter school used to mail the students and their parents registration forms last month. Schools Superintendent Marcia V. Lyles revealed some details of the investigation at a…
Plastic Surgeon’s “Before & After” Photos Violate NY Publicity Rights–Manzione v. Mashkevich
Eric Goldman writes: Dr. Grigoriy Mashkevich performed rhinoplasty on Catherine Manzione and took before-and-after photos of Manzione. Confusingly, Manzione apparently signed two seemingly inconsistent form consent agreements regarding the photos. One said: I do not want my photos to be used. I understand that these photos will be placed in my confidential records only. Another…
House Oversight notifies FTC of investigation into Tiversa and "less than accurate" information it provided in LabMD case (Update 1)
In a bit of a bombshell, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman of the FTC, a letter yesterday that provided some details of its investigation of Tiversa and the “less than accurate” and “incomplete” information its CEO, Robert Boback, provided in his testimony to the FTC in its case against LabMD….
Illinois Attorney General Madigan Indicts Married Couple for Scheme to Access Retirement Funds by Submitting Children’s Fake Death Certificates, Stealing Coworkers IDs
June 11 – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees for a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from the agency’s deferred compensation program that involved submitting fake death certificates for their living children and stealing the identities of former coworkers. Donella Anderson Watkins, 41, of Lansing, was…