Phoebe Tollefson reports: An H&R Block employee let a man who sold him pot “help himself” to filing cabinets containing customer information earlier this year in order to settle a debt, prosecutors allege. James Maurice Palmer, 27, faces charges of forgery and identity theft, both felonies, stemming from the incident in April. Read more on…
Category: Business Sector
A tale of three leaks, Wednesday edition
On December 6, DataBreaches.net was contacted by researchers who requested help notifying two entities that they were exposing health information due to misconfigured AWS S3 buckets. They would turn out to be a delight to deal with, unlike a third entity that was also leaking information from a misconfigured S3 bucket. So let’s start with…
Abandoned documents at raided cockfighting ring allegedly owned by PM’s in-law
Oops? The Phnom Penh Post reports: Kandal, Cambodia – Abandoned documents, found by Phnom Penh Post reporters at a raided cockfighting ring allegedly owned by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s in-law, suggest a network of local payoffs across Kandal province. A trove of documents left behind by law enforcement officials at a recently shuttered cockfighting…
Data breach at Ancestry
Judy G. Russell reports: The folks at Ancestry have taken a proactive security step of closing part of the RootsWeb service today after being notified of a security breach affecting one part of the RootsWeb service. The security issue came from a part of RootsWeb that was closed some months ago. It turns out that,…
Guest’s personal information stolen from Romulus hotel, police seek culprit
Dane Sager Kelly reports on low-tech theft of identity info: Police are asking for public assistance in identifying and locating a man in connection with the theft of personal information at a Holiday Inn on Nov. 28. […] On Nov. 28, at approximately 4:35 a.m., the front desk received a phone call from a woman who claimed…
Appellate Court Rules IT Worker Liable Under CFAA for Sabotaging Employer’s Network
Hanley Chew + Tyler G. Newby of Fenwick & West LLP write: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act conviction of an IT worker who sabotaged his employer’s network, rejecting the argument that an IT worker’s authorized access to “impair” a computer network as part of…