Daniel Wilson reports: A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday denied bail to a former Pratt & Whitney engineer accused of stealing sensitive proprietary military aircraft information and unlawfully attempting to take that information to China, after prosecutors argued he was an “obvious” flight risk. Yu Long has been charged with printing out proprietary documents related to advanced materials…
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PA: Amazon employee charged with stealing credit card info
Eric Mark reports: West Pittston police have charged an employee of Amazon with stealing credits from customer gift cards and adding them to her own Amazon account. Amanda Budurka, 23, of Hanover Township, was arraigned on felony counts of theft by unlawful taking and access device fraud on Friday before Magisterial District Judge Joseph Carmody….
Law firm becomes victim of cryptolocker
Ziprick and Cramer LLP are notifying clients after some of their files were locked up by cryptoware.
@MarxistAttorney tweet suggests he’s been arrested (corrected and updated)
Update of March 19: “Attorney” informs DataBreaches.net that he was not arrested and was just taking a break. Original post: It appears that a young hacker who goes by the online handle of “Attorney” (@MarxistAttorney on Twitter) has been arrested. In a tweet tonight, he wrote: Well this is the end my friends, it was…
Hacker Admits Sabotaging Long Island Company
There’s a follow-up to a breach involving Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation first noted on this site in May, 2013. Thomas Bolger reports: A software programmer formerly from Smithtown has admitted to hacking into and sabotaging a Long Island-based company’s computer network in retaliation for being passed over for promotions three years ago. Michael Meneses…
Investigator Admits Guilt in Hiring of a Hacker
Matthew Goldstein reports: A private investigator who has done work for small New York City law firms that specialize in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Manhattan to one charge of conspiracy in hiring a hacker to help with his investigation. The guilty plea, by Eric Saldarriaga,…