A former worker at an accident repair firm who downloaded and sold the personal data of motorists to nuisance callers has been fined. Phillip Bagnall, 33, of Scotta Road, Eccles, Greater Manchester, was an employee of Nationwide Accident Repair Services Limited (NARS) when he was found to be accessing suspicious volumes of customer data from…
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Personal data of 500,000 Nova Poshta clients allegedly leaked to dark web
Kostiantyn Tsentsura reports: The largest private delivery company in Ukraine, Nova Poshta, has been accused of leaking the personal information of hundreds of thousands of its users to the dark web. […] According to Papyshev, the seller is offering two databases: the first has 500,000 records of clients, with their full names, phone numbers, city…
Former University of Kansas student accused of computer hacking faces 18 felony charges
Sara Shepherd reports: A former University of Kansas freshman, in fear of flunking out, successfully used a device called a keystroke logger to steal instructors’ confidential login information, hack into multiple campus computers and change F’s to A’s. Although the hacking apparently went unnoticed for most of two semesters, the student eventually got caught and…
MO: Licensed Professional Counselor Pleads Guilty to $175,000 Medicaid Fraud Scheme
A DOJ press release, but unfortunately, it doesn’t reveal for whom the defendant was working when she misused patient information. Was she self-employed or an employee of another entity? Jefferson City, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced that Corrine A. Dale, of St. Louis, entered an open plea in St. Louis County Circuit Court…
Former employee of Veterans Affairs indicted for attempted sale of personal info of veterans and employees
LITTLE ROCK—Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Phillip Hill, 32, of Benton, a former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) database manager, with attempting to sell the personal information of veterans and VA employees. The indictment, returned by a grand jury in the…
Withybush Hospital bosses apologize, launch investigation into insider snooping into patient records
Dave Parkinson reports: A former staff member at Withybush Hospital inappropriately accessed electronic patient hospital records, health bosses have revealed. Hywel Dda Health Board said it has written to 41 people to provide them with information and support after its own investigation identified the breach. The individual, an administrator at Withybush Hospital is no longer…