Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy among black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme to purchase airline tickets for their customers. Some…
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French police bust network of mobile phone hackers
A report by AFP provides another reminder of how costly insider breaches can be: French police have busted a network of mobile phone hackers, a fraud worth millions of euros, and arrested nine people, including employees of cellular phone companies, investigators said Sunday. Three people were still in custody Sunday following the arrests across the…
Pointer: UK using stolen data to nail tax cheats?
From the end-ju$tifie$-the-mean$ dept. It looks like the UK has joined the ranks of Spain and France in using data stolen from HSBC to go after tax cheats. See the coverage on UKWired and BBC.
AU: Security breached as former prostitute pilfers Einfeld police transcript
Oh those pesky contractors. Here’s a case making some waves in Australia because it involves a scandal and failure to run background checks. Natasha Wallace reports: It took a former prostitute just a few days to pilfer sensitive computer files and find what she wanted: the nine-page police interview of the disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld….
Suspended Bangalore techie allegedly stole company data (updated)
NOTE: An entry that was posted in May and updated later that month was removed on July 2, 2011 after I was notified that the post contained material that had been removed by the original source of the entry, NDTV. Since NDTV has withdrawn all of their content and their update, I have decided to…
MN: Surveyor faces theft of trade secrets, data charges
Sarah Smith reports: A well-known Park Rapids surveyor faces felony theft charges in a case that has elements of competitive espionage to it. Thomas Michael Miller, 64, has been charged with downloading the database of Arro Land Surveyors, LLC, his former employer, and taking it, a client list and other information to Lindow Surveying &…