Following up on a previously noted insider breach in the financial sector… NWI reports: A woman was sentenced Thursday to five years on probation and ordered to pay $47,449 in restitution to Fifth Third Bank for an identity theft scam, U.S. District Court records show. Kathryn Jackson was employed as a lead customer service representative…
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Homeplus execs and employees illegally sold 24m customers’ info: prosecutors
South Korea has had some major breaches involving consumer information that I’ve reported on over the past years. Here’s a report from Yonhap News that mentions a breach I seem to have missed, though: In February, Homeplus Co., the South Korean unit of British retail giant Tesco PLC, was also indicted on charges of illegally selling…
Ca: Case of accused CBE teen hacker adjourned until August
Daryl Slade has an update on the case of the teenager accused of hacking the Calgary Board of Education: The lawyer for a 15-year-old boy charged last month with allegedly hacking into Calgary Board of Education servers over a five-month period appeared in youth court on Thursday. The teen, who was represented by lawyer Joel Chevrefils, allegedly…
More than 1,000 employees in Anchorage veterans administration notified of breach due to employee error
On June 10, the Salt Lake City Regional Office of the Veterans Administration was notified that the The Wounded Warrior Program Office in Seattle had received a box from a veteran in Anchorage. The veteran had previously gone to the Anchorage office in April to request a copy of her VA file, and several weeks later, had returned to…
Lottery IT security boss guilty of hacking lotto systems to win $14.3m
Iain Thomson reports: Iowa state lottery’s IT security boss hacked his employer’s computer system, and rigged the lottery so he could buy a winning ticket in a subsequent draw. On Tuesday, at the Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, the disgraced director of information security was found guilty of fraud. Eddie Tipton, 52, installed…
Saskatchewan Cancer Agency patient privacy breach
Canadian Press reports: The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency says it has disciplined two employees for viewing the private health information of 48 people they were not providing care for. The information they looked at included patient names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, health services numbers as well as information about diagnostic tests, medical exams, clinical…