There’s an update to a case previously noted on this blog. Donald Claude, 34, of Miramar, was sentenced to 40 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $210,120. Claude previously pled guilty to one count of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18,…
Category: Education Sector
Arkansas State University-Beebe alerts students and employees to potential breach
Arkansas State University-Beebe issued a precautionary notice of a potential data breach regarding personally identifiable information of students and employees at its campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy and the Little Rock Air Force Base. The infected server did not contain credit card information for any current or former student or employee. On October…
MA: Apologetic New Bedford hacker gets 4-year jail sentence
Milton J. Valencia reports that recidivist hacker Cameron Lacroix (aka “cam0,” “Freak,” and “leetjones”) was sentenced to four years in prison for a variety of hacking crimes that included accessing the computer accounts of three professors at Bristol Community College in New Bedford and changing grades for himself and two friends hacking into a local police chief’s…
Former TSA worker sentenced for ID theft fraud using stolen student identity info
Paula McMahon reports an update to a case previously noted on this site: A Broward man was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for identity theft and wire fraud last week after admitting he used Miami-Dade County public school students’ stolen identities to file illegal tax returns. Donald Claude, 34, of Miramar,…
Mother says daughter’s school records posted on Instagram
WSB-TV in Atlanta reports: An Atlanta mother is upset after she says her daughter’s personal files were left out in a classroom and someone posted pictures of them on Instagram. Maisha Harris says the files showed her daughter’s Social Security number on them and she’s worried about identity theft. “It shows schools, name, her last…
Leader of Team Digi7al sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….