Wheeler News Service reports the latest development in a case previously noted on this blog: A second sister from Milwaukee is going to prison for stealing identities to get more than $234,000 in bogus state income tax refunds. 38-year-old Sharon Staten will spend 10 years behind bars and 10 more on supervision on counts of…
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Computer hacker extradited from Cyprus to Pittsburgh to face charges
First they caught the botnet administrator in Cyprus. Then they extradited him to Pittsburgh. Andrew Conte reports: Andrey Ghinkul, of Moldova, is scheduled to appear at 2 p.m. at the U.S. Courthouse, Downtown. He plans to plead not guilty, his lawyer, Arkady Bukh of New York City, told the Tribune-Review. Ghinkul will be represented by a public defender…
U. Central Florida facing second lawsuit over data breach
If one lawsuit is good, two is better, right? Gabrielle Russon reports: A former UCF men’s basketball team manager who claims his bank account was drained has filed the second lawsuit this month over a computer hack where 63,000 Social Security numbers from former and current students and employees were stolen. UCF’s handling of people’s…
San Diego Medical Center Did Not Report A Data Breach To State
California Healthline reports: Tri-City Medical Center, which says a longtime clerical clerk was dismissed for breaching patient data, did not report any such event to authorities: Payers & Providers: Hospital Never Self-Reported Breach A clerical employee was fired from Tri-City Medical Center in San Diego County this week for an alleged breach of patient data…
Wakey, Wakey: Breached Credit Union Comes Out of its Shell
From the we-tried-to-notify-you dept. Brian Krebs reports: Notifying people and companies about data breaches often can be a frustrating and thankless job. Despite my best efforts, sometimes a breach victim I’m alerting will come away convinced that I am not an investigative journalist but instead a scammer. This happened most recently this week, when I told a California credit…
Restitution amount must reflect complete accounting of intended loss: court
There’s an update to an insider breach case previously noted on this site involving a former employee of Citadel LLC and Tradeworx Inc. An opinion out of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals may offer some small measure of hope to defendants in CFAA cases when it comes to restitution for theft of proprietary information and costs of…