Mike Carter reports the latest development in the federal prosecution of Russian hacker Roman Seleznev: A federal judge has refused to suppress key evidence in the pending trial of accused Russian mega-hacker Roman Seleznev. U.S. District Judge Richard Jones said Seleznev’s accusations that federal agents tampered with his computer — and the dueling opinions of prosecution and…
Month: June 2016
Abingdon Avon employee arrested a month after a data breach
There’s a follow-up to an investigation noted previously on this site. KWQC reports that the he Abingdon-Avon School District’s IT Director has been arrested just a month after the district revealed it was investigating an employee for a data breach impacting student grades and grade point averages (GPAs). Court records show Mark L. Rodgers is charged with…
Payroll company employee stole customer funds, feds claim
Robert Patrick reports: An employee of a payroll processing company changed clients’ account information to re-direct their pay, an indictment filed Wednesday says. Courtland Iverson and Romel Handson were each indicted on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Read more on: St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The payroll processing firm is not named in…
AU: Queensland creep cops charged with snooping through police records
Darren Pauli reports: Police in the northern Australian state of Queensland have been busted accessing citizens’ police files a huge number of times, in some cases without authorisation. The breaches include the accessing of a bikini model and social justice warrior’s QPrime database file some 1,435 times. Former Miss Bikini World contestant Renee Eaves previously…
Ca: Personal information in 100,000 IT requests compromised in Simon Fraser University database misconfiguration
Corneilia Naylor reports that Simon Fraser University has self-disclosed that they left a lot of personal information on an unsecured database. Good for them for discovering it and disclosing it, although of course we wish it had never happened or had been discovered sooner. On Jan. 27, 2016, SFU IT services inadvertently copied incidents, inquiries and…
UK: Confidential records of mentally ill patients found in cabinet bought on eBay
Another totally inexcusable and shameful privacy breach. Personal documents containing confidential details of mentally ill patients of the former Wolverhampton NHS Primary Care Trust were found in a filing cabinet bought on eBay. The cabinet contained 60 pages of documents including details of patients’ history of sexual abuse and suicide attempts. Read more on Express &…