Boris Segalis and Nihar Shah provide some follow-up to a data security breach at New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas and Electric that was disclosed in January. As I noted in July, regulators criticized NYSEG over the breach that had affected 1.8 million. Segalis and Shah write: The Commission subsequently issued an “Order Directing…
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Will the High Court Resolve ‘Without Authorization’ Under the CFAA?
Nick Akerman has an article in the upcoming issue of The National Law Journal that begins: On July 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit became the first circuit to adopt the Ninth Circuit’s holding in U.S. v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir. 2012), that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act does…
Teenager arrested in Eugene school computer breach released
Back in June, the Eugene School District 4J in Oregon reported a breach. A teenager who allegedly obtained an employee’s login credentials was subsequently charged. An affidavit submitted to obtain a search warrant of the student’s computer indicated that the teen had admitted to using a brute force program. Apparently, the teen has detained since…
Doc reported after breast surgery vids hit YouTube
It seems it’s not just U.S. cosmetic surgeons getting into trouble over before/after images uploaded to the Internet that do not adequately protect patient privacy. Here’s a news story by Clara Guibourg in The Local in Sweden: A Stockholm-based plastic surgeon has been reported for uploading videos to YouTube, showing before, during and after footage of…
Drug-Addicted Former Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Acquiring Painkillers (updated)
Here’s the latest on a case I’ve been following since it was first disclosed in February 2009. The Lake Elsinore – Wildomar Patch reports: A former doctor with a felony record for multiple acts of identity theft and forgery stemming from an addiction to painkillers was sentenced today to five years behind bars for violating…
CabinCr3w member sentenced to 27 months in prison (updated)
Steven Kreytak reports that a Galveston man was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 months in federal prison for hacking into computers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, Houston County, Alabama and the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association. Higinio O. Ochoa III, who pleaded guilty in…