Mathew Richards reports: Following a five-day trial, a Dallas man was convicted on Friday on charges for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of a New York-based technology company, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 30-year-old Tyler C. King…
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UK Info Commish quietly urged court to swat away 100k Morrisons data breach sueball
Gareth Corfield reports: The UK’s Information Commissioner urged the Court of Appeal to side with Morrisons in the supermarket’s battle to avoid liability for the theft and leaking of nearly 100,000 employees’ payroll details – despite not having read the employees’ legal arguments. A letter (PDF) sent to the Court of Appeal in May 2018…
Morrisons: £55m payout over 2014 ‘grudge’ leak of payroll data ‘grossly unjust’
Graeme Burton reports: Morrisons has told the Supreme Court in London that it should not be held either directly or vicariously liable for the 2014 payroll data leak of almost 100,000 employees. The leak was traced to its senior IT internal auditor Andrew Skelton, who held a grudge against the company following a disciplinary hearing over the…
Two former Twitter employees and a Saudi national charged in plot to spy on users for Saudi government
From the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California: SAN FRANCISCO –Ali Alzabarah, Ahmad Abouammo, and Ahmed Almutairi, a/k/a Ahmed Aljbreen, were charged for their respective roles in fraudulently accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users and providing that information to officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced United States…
Trend Micro employee sold criminals data that fueled targeted scams
Gabriel E. Hall reports: A new security incident was discovered by one of the most prominent anti-virus makers – Trend Micro. According to an official blog post that was published by the firm on Tuesday,[1] November 5, one of its employees accessed customer information database and harvested data, which later was sold to tech support scammers…
Steyer staffer resigns after downloading Kamala Harris info in data breach
Maura Barrett, Jordan Jackson and Deepa Shivaram report: A staff member for Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer used access he had previously been granted while working for the South Carolina Democratic Party to download data about rival Kamala Harris’ campaign, state party officials said Monday. The South Carolina Post & Courier was the first to report the breach….