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IRS Information Technology Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes from Government Subcontractor Whom He Attempted to Extort

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Dissent

Today’s insider-wrongdoing example comes to us from the government sector.  The Office of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice issued the following press release: A Maryland man pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for helping acquaintances and their businesses procure and continue work on subcontracts with the IRS. According to…

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Columbus’ head of tech claims ransomware group ignored city before data leak; Rhysida says they’re lying (1)

Posted on September 10, 2024September 13, 2024 by Dissent

 Mark Feuerborn and Isabel Cleary report:  Columbus’ massive data leak has been described as a ransomware attack, but the city’s head of technology revealed something new Monday night about the incident: not only was there no ransom, attempts to negotiate with the hackers behind it went unanswered. The Columbus City Council was on break through August,…

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Ex-Police Scotland employee charged with 44 data breaches

Posted on September 7, 2024 by Dissent

Today’s reminder of the need to control and regularly audit employee access to personal information comes to us from Erin Maguire in Scotland: A FORMER member of Police Scotland staff is due to stand trial after she denied 44 charges of illegally accessing the personal data of dozens of people over a period spanning four…

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Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspiring to Hack Ukrainian Government

Posted on September 5, 2024 by Dissent Doe

Six computer hackers, all of whom were residents and nationals of the Russian Federation (Russia), were charged in an indictment with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and wire fraud conspiracy. Five of the defendants were officers in Unit 29155 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of…

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US Marshals say data posted by ransomware gang not from ‘new or undisclosed incident’

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Dissent

Jonathan Greig reports: The U.S. Marshals Service said it has looked into recent data theft claims made by a prominent ransomware gang and determined none of the data is from a new incident. Brady McCarron, a spokesperson for the Marshals Service, told Recorded Future News that the law enforcement agency is aware of the allegations…

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Privacy group fights European Parliament over ‘massive’ HR data breach

Posted on August 23, 2024 by Dissent

Antoaneta Roussi reports: The European Parliament’s headache over a major human resources data breach earlier this year just won’t fade. Austria-based digital rights group noyb on Thursday said it had filed two complaints against the European Union institution for infringing the bloc’s flagship privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), over a data breach…

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