Readers may recall that US Investigations Services, LLC, the contractor who conducted personnel background checks for the Department of Homeland Security, detected a hack in June. The breach affected 27,000 DHS employees. For some reason, USIS is now first sending a copy of a notification letter to the California Attorney General’s web site and to the New…
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McDonald’s worker caught skimming
WSB-TV reports that an alert customer in Roswell caught a McDonald’s worker skimming her card. Nice point about watching and staying alert when you hand someone your card.
Pirate Bay Founder Convicted on Hacking Charges; Sentenced to 3.5 Years
Following up on a news story posted yesterday: Over on Wired, Kim Zetter has additional details on the trial and conviction of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottrid Svartholm Warg.
Retailers accuse credit unions of talking smack about card breaches
Sean Gallagher reports: Reeling from the bad press associated with an ongoing parade of data breaches caused by criminal infiltration of their payment systems, representatives of six retail industry associations signed a joint open letter that pushes back against a vocal critic of retailers’ cyber-security practices—credit union associations. In the letter addressed to the presidents of…
Chinese engineer to plead guilty in theft of GE Healthcare trade secrets
Bruce Vielmetti reports: A Chinese engineer charged with stealing trade secrets and confidential information from a GE Healthcare subsidiary in Waukesha has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Jun Xie, 41, will plead guilty to one count of stealing trade secrets, according to federal court records. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years…
Another Defendant Sentenced In Identity Theft Fraud Scheme Involving Personal Identifying Information From AT&T Customer Files
Tracy Delva, 22, of Deerfield Beach, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $27,441 in restitution. Delva previously pled guilty to one count of access device fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,…