There’s an update on a case first noted on this blog in 2013. The Chicago Tribune reports: Former Elgin deputy police chief Robert Beeter pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of hacking into the email account of a fellow officer whose wife was romantically involved with Beeter. In a plea bargain with Kane County prosecutors,…
Month: July 2015
NZ: Data leak: Real estate staffer fired
Auckland’s biggest real estate firm has fired the employee who leaked the sales data that sparked a controversy about the number of overseas Chinese buying houses in New Zealand. Barfoot & Thompson‘s managing director, Peter Thompson, and chief executive, Wendy Alexander, confirmed the sacking after conducting an investigation into the leak, which Labour used to…
UK: Morrisons employee accused of leaking data on 100,000 supermarket staff because he bore a “grudge” against company (updated)
Sometimes it takes a while before we learn the motivation for an insider breach. This week, the motivation in the Morrisons breach was presented in court. The Echo reports: A Morrisons employee from Liverpool posted sensitive, personal data relating to almost 100,000 of the supermarket’s staff on the internet and sent it to newspapers due to a “grudge”, a…
German spooks target officials who leaked govt docs to bloggers
Jennifer Baker reports: Germany’s domestic secret service is backing a criminal case against government officials who passed documents to the press. Activists claim the investigation is an effort to clamp down on the freedom of the press, while others see it as a cynical move by interior spooks the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution…
Santander reports ATM incidents at Massachusetts branches (updated)
Santander Bank seems to be having problems with ATM incidents at some of their Massachusetts branches. In each of three reported cases, the criminals attached a magnetic stripe reader on the ATM vestibule door of the branch and removed it within a day or two. Customers’ names, card numbers, expiration dates, security codes, and PIN numbers were obtained…
Alfa Specialty Insurance and Alfa Vision Insurance notify customers of personal information leak
Alfa Specialty Insurance Corp. and Alfa Vision Insurance Corp. are notifying some customers that personal information related to auto insurance policies was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The exposure was discovered on May 4th. The source of the exposure was one of their servers in their Brentwood, Tennessee location. Exposed information included customers’ names, addresses, dates…