Joe Uchill reports: Nuclear power plants, chemical plants, defense contractors and other highly sensitive industries and workers are leaking information through their pagers, a new report shows. Pagers have been out of vogue with the public since the rise of the cellphone but are still used to send automated messages from industrial systems or building automation systems….
Category: Government Sector
AU: Lawyers duped by paramedic injury fraud
Kelly Burke reports: A government employee who duped some of Sydney’s leading law firms by selling the personal details of 130 injured paramedics pocketed more than $200,000 before walking out of court with a good behaviour bond. NSW Ambulance’s former injury management co-ordinator Waqar Ahmad Malik gained access to a list of injured paramedics the NSW…
NJ: Couple used IDs of prison inmates to file $317K in false insurance claims, authorities say
Toniann Antonelli reports: A Delaware couple has been indicted on charges that they used the names of prison inmates to fraudulently collect more than $317,000 in New Jersey unemployment and temporary disability benefits. Jose Crespo, 50, and his wife, Marilyn Crespo, 48, both of New Castle, Delaware, were indicted Wednesday on second degree charges of…
NY: Hackers breach City of Middletown computer system
Michael Randall reports: MIDDLETOWN – The city said Friday that computer hackers gained access to personal information of people who had contact with the Middletown Police Department. While an investigation has found no evidence of fraudulent misuse of personal information, the city is notifying those potentially affected by the breach and offering them free credit-monitoring…
Laptop with crucial CMO data stolen
TNN reports: In a strange incident, a laptop of a close personal aide of chief minister Vijay Rupani was reportedly stolen from the third floor of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) in Swarnim Sankul. The development left the aide, who sits in the third chamber from CM’s chamber, and other staff members in a tizzy as the theft…
Syrian refugees’ data stolen from council worker day before Clydebank arrival
Tristan Stewart-Robinson reports on a small-N breach with potentially huge consequences for those affected: A list of the names of Syrian refugees and their new addresses in Clydebank was stolen one day before they were moved to the town, The Post can reveal. Some of the most vulnerable families in the world, fleeing the ravages of war, could…