Ziprick and Cramer LLP are notifying clients after some of their files were locked up by cryptoware.
Month: March 2015
Bank of America Claims Victim “Benefited” From Identity Theft
From the financial-chutzpah dept.: Bank of America allegedly refuses to reverse an identity theft victim’s bank charges, claiming that she — wait for it — benefited from the withdrawn (read: stolen) funds: Van Valer said they made her feel responsible for the fraud. Initially, the bank reversed $21,000 of fraudulent charges but it refuses to…
Anti-Israeli hackers target Louisiana’ Rapides Parish Police Jury, Bank websites
Waqas writes: The online hacktivist AnonGhost is on a hacking spree with targeting websites of top law enforcement agencies in the United States. A couple of days ago the hacktivists hacked the official website of Larimer County Sheriff’s Office not once but twice in a week. Today, the same group has hacked and defaced the official website of state of Louisiana’s Rapides Parish…
Ex-Blue Cross employee pleads guilty to ID theft
News4Jax reports: A woman who had access to customers’ personal identifying information while working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida in 2011 has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of aggravated identity theft. Laura Butler, 40, faces a maximum penalty of seven years in federal prison with a two-year mandatory minimum prison term. Butler…
Irish IVF industry slams donor disclosure proposals
Michael Cook reports: Proposed legislation in Ireland which would ban anonymous donation of eggs and sperm has come under fire from the IVF industry. In a hard-hitting op-ed in the Irish Times, Dr John Waterstone, vice president of the Irish Fertility Society, has called upon the Oireachtas (parliament) to scupper the assisted reproduction regulations of the…
How the HSBC whistleblower used the Internet to leak private bank information to the police
Stefano Pozzeban reports: Hervé Falciani, the French-Italian whistleblower who handed over information on 100,000 HSBC client accounts to French authorities in 2009, has published a detailed account on how the transfer of the data actually took place. The IT engineer has published a book, La Cassaforte degli Evasori, which tells his side of the story, writing how he…