Another insider breach, this one involving GlaxoSmithKline, was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Eastern Pennsylvania last week: An indictment was filed charging five people in an alleged scheme to steal biopharmaceutical trade secrets from pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Charged in the conspiracy are: Yu Xue, 45,…
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SCOTUS upholds Musacchio’s convictions for hacking former employer
Dan McCue reports on the Musacchio case: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the felony convictions of a former executive with a technology firm who unlawfully hacked his employer’s computers to steal information he then used to start his own company. Michael Musacchio, the former president of Exel Transportation Services, was convicted in May…
TX: Midway students charged after hacking online portal to issue false alarm
Stephanie Butts reports: Two Midway High School students were charged Tuesday with distributing a false report or alarm after posting a screen shot of a false administrative document warning families about potential violence at the school, Hewitt Police Chief Jim Devlin said. Midway Independent School District officials fielded about 200 calls Tuesday after a social…
Florida couple ran tax service and check cashing business to acquire identity info for tax refund fraud scheme
Once again, a reminder that the local business you trust with your tax or bank account information may not be worthy of your trust. A Pembroke Pines, Florida, couple pleaded guilty for conspiring to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. According to court documents, between July 2009 and…
Alaska Orthopedic Specialists Notifies Patients of Security Incident
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 22, 2016 — Alaska Orthopedic Specialists has sent notification to all affected patients about a security incident involving information that was taken by a former non-physician employee. In March of 2015, Alaska Orthopedic Specialists, Inc., closed its medical practice in Anchorage, Alaska. In the course of closing the business later that year, the practice discovered that the…
In: Sector V fights cyber-crime stain; TalkTalk customers scammed by rogue Wipro employees
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: The arrest of two Wipro employees following the crackdown on an international data theft racket has sent shockwaves across Salt Lake Sector V, the IT hub of Bengal. Though many tech firms have hurriedly opted for data insurance, most of them are not sure if it is enough to secure confidentiality and…