Robert Patrick reports: A former Washington University employee was acquitted Wednesday of federal computer fraud charges that claimed he’d downloaded protected financial information related to the school’s endowment. David Shen, 45, of New Jersey, was manager of asset allocation and risk management for the Washington University Investment Management Company. Read more on St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Month: June 2015
Eastern Health ‘tore’ offices apart looking for missing flash drive (updated)
CBC News reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest health authority is reporting a privacy breach affecting thousands of its employees, including the loss of sensitive data like social insurance numbers, names and employee numbers. Eastern Health said a USB flash drive containing a spreadsheet of employees’ personal information went missing sometime between last Wednesday and Friday. At…
Foreign suspect indicted in UPMC identity theft tax case
Joe Mandak of AP reports: A federal grand jury has indicted a foreign citizen in a conspiracy to file more than 900 phony federal tax returns seeking $2.2 million in refunds by using employee information stolen from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The hospital network was hacked in early 2014 and UPMC officials said then…
Cleaning Up the Federal Cyber Debacle
If federal agencies wish to provide effective oversight of the private sector, then they should start by looking in the mirror. — Rep. Will Hurd, former CIA officer and former adviser to FusionX Read his full OpEd on WSJ.
FL man pleads guilty in SIRF scheme involving identity info from a Florida Department of Children and Families database
He was indicted in April for his role in a scheme involving Cora Eutsay, a CareerSource South Florida employee accused of misusing access to the Department of Children and Families’ ACCESS Florida System. Now Kyron Jonathan Nedd, 22, of Miami Gardens, has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in violation of Title 18,…
Police Association of Ontario hacked by Anonymous
The announcement of a hack of the Police Association of Ontario was made by @ro0ted on Wednesday: Round 4.. #OpC51 #OpBillC51 #Anonymous http://t.co/UFb7dJbPjT – Police Association of Ontario https://t.co/7pS2kW0AzX pic.twitter.com/0CiGDYl2sF — ro0ted (@ro0ted) June 24, 2015 The attack continues the hacktivism over C-51, Canada’s controversial new anti-terrorism bill. The data dump, which is still available as of this morning, includes…