Michelle Hackim writes: An employer had no cause of action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) against an employee who accessed its computer systems to misappropriate confidential and proprietary business information to start a competing business, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has held. Cranel Inc. v. Pro Image Consultants…
Category: Breach Incidents
Alabama Woman Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
A Dothan, Alabama, woman was sentenced to serve 34 months in prison in connection with her role in committing stolen identity tax refund fraud. On July 16, a jury found Nina Macena, 32, guilty of conspiring to defraud the government through the filing of false tax returns, three counts of wire fraud and three counts…
Personal info of almost 100,000 people exposed through flaw on site for student transcripts
Ashkan Soltani, Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima report: The personal information of almost 100,000 people seeking their high school transcripts was recently exposed on a Web site that helps students obtain their records. The site, NeedMyTranscript.com, facilitates requests from all 50 states and covers more than 18,000 high schools around the country, according to its Web…
KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers
Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…
Three Atlanta federal judges recuse themselves from Home Depot data breach lawsuits
David Allison reports: Some of the lawsuits hitting The Home Depot Inc. over its recent data breach are apparently hitting too close to home for some federal judges in Atlanta. Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is facing at least 21 lawsuits stemming from the data breach, which reportedly may affect 60 million customers. More than a dozen of the lawsuits…
Japan’s gov’t mulls beefing up regulations on exchange of personal data among database firms
Mainichi reports: The government is considering tightening regulations on the exchange of personal data among database firms, after a systems engineer allegedly stole a massive amount of customer information from correspondence education provider Benesse Holdings Inc. and sold it to three database companies. According to investigative sources, over 200 million customer data entries were leaked…