Lisa Egan and Caroline Judd of K&L Gates LLP write: Federal Court of Australia Decision in Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd v Koudstaal (No 3) [2014] FCA 1129 An ex-employee was recently ordered to pay his former employer AUD50,000 in damages after the Federal Court (Court) held that the employee had infringed copyright and breached his employment agreement and duty…
Category: Theft
GA: Confidential paperwork found after theft
Rachel Stockman reports: Confidential customer information from a car dealership was potentially compromised after a theft. Delores Carston showed Channel 2 Action News file after file of confidential customer information, including her own, that she says somehow ended up on the street. A man found the paperwork and called her. “This is personal information, this…
Ex-HSBC Employee Falciani Said Indicted on Swiss Bank Data Theft
Hugo Miller reports: A former computer technician for HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) “celebrated as a hero abroad” was indicted in Switzerland on charges of industrial espionage and violating the country’s bank secrecy laws, prosecutors said. The Swiss Attorney General’s office, without identifying the suspect as is its custom, said in a statement today that the country was prepared…
Sentinel newsroom burglarized, computers stolen
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports: Burglars broke into the Santa Cruz Sentinel office at 1800 Green Hills Road on Saturday morning and stole computer laptops. Read more here. They don’t report whether there was any confidential material or material from sources on any of the laptops, and if so, whether the data were encrypted.
CO: 140-count grand jury indictment dismantles ID theft ring in Jefferson County
The Denver Channel reports on an ID theft ring: A Jefferson County grand jury has returned a 165-count indictment against a suspected ID theft ring that operated for six months in 2013. According to the indictment, members of the nine-member enterprise obtained personal and financial information of people and businesses and used this information to…
TX: Thief steals equipment, birth certificates from youth football team
Cory Smith reports: A youth football team from Dallas was celebrating its victory in a weekend tournament Sunday when a thief broke into their van in San Antonio. […] The thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment and electronics. The players’ birth certificates were also stolen. “That’s what we’re most worried about, the birth certificates,”…