In a follow-up to a case where a data breach has had massive consequences for the breached entity, Mark Hawthorne reports that Nicholas Bolton lost another round in court in Australia when the court affirmed a decision by the Australian Domain Name Administrator (AuDA) banning Bottle Domains from selling or administering domain names: In January…
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Construction firm sues after $588,000 online theft
Jeremy Kirk reports: A construction company in Maine is suing its bank after about $588,000 disappeared from its accounts, alleging the bank failed to spot suspicious account activity before it was too late. Over a week-long period in May, fraudsters made six transfers from the online bank accounts of Patco Construction Company, a family-owned developer…
Demon ebill blunder exposes thousands of passwords
PC Pro reports: Demon Internet has sent out a spreadsheet containing the personal details of thousands of customers with one of its new ebills. The spreadsheet – which has been forwarded to PC Pro – contains email addresses, telephone numbers and what appears to be usernames and passwords for the ebilling system. […] The Excel…
Armenian sentenced to time served in card skimming operation
The Associated Press reports that an Armenian, Artur Grigoryan, was sentenced to time served for his part in a card skimming operation that victimized customers of Rite Aid stores in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Grigoryan had already served two years and is expected to be deported to Armenia. His co-conspirator, Artur Harutyunyan, is set to be…
Man who misused commercial database sentenced to prison
As a follow-up to a case previously noted here, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. announced that a Queens, N.Y., man was sentenced to 141 months in federal prison today for supplying Social Security numbers to members of an identity fraud ring. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton also ordered Yomi Jagunna, 44, to…
Laptop with some of Madoff victims’ data stolen
It just seems to get worse and worse for Bernie Madoff’s victims. Now AlixPartners, the court-appointed claims agent for the liquidation of Bemard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC reports (pdf) that in late July, a laptop computer of theirs was stolen from an employee’s locked vehicle. The laptop contained historical information from 1995 and earlier…