As expected, another T-Mobile UK employee has pleaded guilty to selling customer data in a scheme that was first revealed in 2009: A former employee of T-Mobile UK has pleaded guilty to charges of stealing confidential information and selling it to a rival company. Last November, it was revealed that investigators at the UK’s Information…
Category: Breach Incidents
WA: Two charged in BECU ID theft thought to impact 100s
Levi Pulkkinen reports: Prosecutors have filed charges against two men believed to have defrauded hundreds of BECU [Boeing Employees Credit Union] members by “skimming” debit cards at Seattle-area ATMs. Having filed IDd theft-related charges against the men, King County prosecutors contend Seattle resident Claudiu Flaviu Tudor and Mihai Podaru stole the account information of hundreds…
UK: Hacker fined over Soas student password scam
A computer hacker who broke into the email accounts of hundreds of students has been fined £21,000. Daniel Woo, 23, a Bulgarian, admitted repeatedly posing as a student at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Bloomsbury, central London. Police said Woo, of Knightsbridge, took financial data, and fraud later occurred in some accounts….
DPA fines – why ICO got it right
Stewart Room writes about the first fines imposed by the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office: I’ve heard two arguments that are critical of the ICO fines. They go something like this: (1) the fines were too low and (2) it’s wrong of ICO to fine a Local Authority when it didn’t fine Google. Let me try…
Former Sprint-Nextel employee sentenced for improper disclosure of phone records to cocaine dealer
Amy Quesnel, 29, of Georgia, Vermont was sentenced yesterday to six months imprisonment to be followed by four months of home detention. Quesnel had previously pled guilty to a violation of the Telephone Records Privacy Protection Act, which carries a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. U.S. Attorney Coffin stated that…
NY: Ex-MCC student Terry Zimmerman says he stole others’ refunds to find HIV cure
Gary Craig reports: A 19-year-old former Monroe Community College student maintains he stole from other college students via identity theft because he wanted to find a cure for the AIDS virus, authorities allege. Rochester resident Terry Zimmerman, who assisted other MCC students with computer problems, used his access to steal their financial aid refunds, court…