Sandy Hodson reported this on January 21st: An Augusta man accused of selling personal identity information on the dark web that he allegedly stole from employers was arrested Friday. […] The investigation also uncovered the sale of personal identity information gathered from TaxSlayer, where Britt was working until his arrest. He is on unpaid leave…
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TX: Hackers Stole $10.5 Million From Richardson Company: Feds
Scott Gordon reports: Hackers stole $10.5 million from a Richardson real estate software company with the help of “money mules” – dozens of Americans who unwittingly accepted fraudulent money into their accounts, transferred it to those behind the scheme, and kept a cut for themselves, according to court documents. The company, RealPage, contacted the Dallas…
Fired computer programmer gets prison time for cyberattack against ex-employer in Oregon
Maxine Bernstein reports: A man fired from a McMinnville-based digital marketing company was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for launching a cyberattack against his former employer. Kristopher Ives began working for Gearbox Studios in March 2010 as a computer programmer and later as its lead programmer for server architecture…
Identity and Access Misstep: How an Amazon Engineer Exposed Credentials and More
The UpGuard team reports: UpGuard can now disclose that a repository hosted on GitHub with data from an Amazon Web Services engineer containing personal identity documents and system credentials including passwords, AWS key pairs, and private keys has been secured from public access. The data was committed to a public repository on the morning of…
Khazanah files police report on leak of Malaysia Airlines board papers
The Edge Markets reports: Upset and shocked by what appears to be a leak of the entire board papers on Malaysia Airlines Bhd, Khazanah Nasional Bhd wants police to act. Sources said the country’s sovereign wealth fund lodged a police report on the matter yesterday. The sources said this was not a normal leak of…
Man sentenced 8 years in hard drive “shucking” theft scheme
Jeremy Childs reports: A 42-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison for participating in a complex theft scheme of computer hard drives, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Peter Cuong Chi Nhan, 42, of El Monte, pleaded guilty to 12 felony counts of organized retail theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy to…