Suzy Gibson reports: A police officer who gained unauthorised access to information on force computers could be facing a jail sentence. PC Andrew Clay, 50, appeared at Leicester Crown Court to plead guilty to six charges of securing unauthorised access to computer material, between September 2002 and March 2013. Five counts relate to seeking information about…
Month: February 2015
Cyber angst: Orange County companies zero in on data breaches
Margot Roosevelt reports: Last year, according to the Mount Olympus Mortgage Co. in Irvine, several of its officers secretly downloaded confidential information on hundreds of loan customers and transferred five gigabytes of data to a competitor. The loan officers then deleted files and emails on their computers and went to work for that rival, Chicago-based lender Guaranteed…
Feds investigating $1.7M possibly stolen from Centra credit union
Ashley Walter reports: Federal authorities are investigating the possible theft of $1.7 million from Centra‘s credit union. […] Since the investigation began in early January, the credit union manager and two other employees of the credit union have been on unpaid, administrative leave and still are. Read more on The News & Advance.
PA: Benecard employees say data breach made them victims of tax refund fraud
Barbara Miller reports: A class action lawsuit filed Feb. 26 claims prescription benefit company Benecard Services Inc., which has an office in Mechanicsburg, failed to notify former employees and customers of a recent data breach. The suit, filed in U.S. Middle District Court by Harrisburg attorney Benjamin Andreozzi, is on behalf of five former employees…
FORK ME! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers
Kieren McCarthy reports: Uber has subpoenaed GitHub to unmask netizens suspected of hacking its database of taxi drivers. The ride-booking app maker is trying to force GitHub [PDF] to hand over the IP addresses of anyone who visited a particular gist post between March and September last year. That gist is believed to have contained a login…
Two Wyoming Bills Amending the State’s Breach Notification Statute Are Headed to the Governor
Hunton & Williams write: On February 23, 2015, the Wyoming Senate approved a bill (S.F.36) that adds several data elements to the definition of “personal identifying information” in the state’s data breach notification statute. The amended definition will expand Wyoming’s breach notification law to cover certain online account access credentials, unique biometric data, health insurance information, medical…