Anthony Clark, 24, was convicted today of wire fraud in connection with his involvement in a scheme to defraud a software company, Electronic Arts, of more than $16 million. The conviction was announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Leslie R. Caldwell. Clark’s conviction…
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Wang Chau consultants got off easy over confidential leak, Hong Kong lawmakers tell officials
Shirley Zhao reports: Lawmakers accused the government of being too lenient in punishing a consultancy firm that leaked confidential internal data to a private developer after barring it from bidding on government projects for only three months. Read more on South China Morning Post.
UK: Teenager admits to seven hacking offences in Talk Talk data breach
Sam Russell reports: A 17-year-old boy has admitted seven hacking offences linked to the TalkTalk data breach in October 2015. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in Norwich on November 3 last year and charged with breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990 following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Cyber…
Secrets for hundreds of millions exposed in largest hack of 2016: Friend Finder Network
From LeakedSource.com: Friend Finder Network Inc is a company that operates a wide range of 18+ services and was hacked in October of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data which makes it by far the largest breach we have ever seen — MySpace gets 2nd place at 360 million….
AU: Big W shutters online shopping after data leak
Juha Saarinen reports: Retailer Big W‘s website remains in browsing-only mode after a glitch meant shoppers were shown the personal information of other customers. In a notice to customers, Big W said the “technical issue” occured on Thursday November 10 between 1.50pm and 3pm. It meant “the first stage of the checkout process [was] pre-populated with the personal…
MLS seeks, finds, plugs data breach
Richard Mize reports: Home security system sales pitches were coming too soon and too accurately, hitting new homeowners and their real estate agents immediately after closing. Realtors smelled a rat. People were getting hit up for ADT Security systems based on private data, clearly. Plus, the ADT Security reseller was making it sound like the…