On October 10, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) today announced that Sathish Kumar Chandhun Rajendran, 36, of Sterling, Va., was sentenced on October 3, 2014, for engaging in unauthorized access to government servers that hosted a Fannie Mae website used to support federal mortgage loan modification…
Category: Government Sector
GA: Administrative clerk indicted on theft, fraud charges
Roslyn Giles reports: A Muscogee County grand jury has returned a 10-count indictment against an administrative clerk on theft and fraud charges. Regina Millirons, a 30-year veteran with the sheriff’s office, faces four counts of public record theft, three counts of public record fraud and three counts of computer theft. The indictment states the unlawful…
NOAA National Weather Service Employee Indicted for Allegedly Downloading Restricted Government Files
DAYTON, OH—Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, 59, of Wilmington, Ohio, was indicted in U.S. District Court for allegedly accessing restricted U.S. Government files. Chen is a hydrologist currently employed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) facility located in Wilmington, Ohio. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kevin R. Cornelius,…
Chicago Housing Authority: Data Breach Investigation “Closed”
Jason Knowles reports: CHA officials said an investigation into how dozens of birth certificates, social security cards, credit reports and addresses were left by a dumpster is “closed.” The self-proclaimed dumpster diver discovered the personal data written on discarded affordable housing applications in the trash last May. An ABC7 I-Team report led CHA officials to…
Continuing Federal Cyber Breaches Warn Against Cybersecurity Regulation
David Inserra and Paul Rosenzweig write: Recent high-profile private-sector hacks have once again put a spotlight on the issue of cybersecurity.[1] This is a serious problem that requires legislation to improve the United States’ cybersecurity posture, but the U.S. should not reflexively adopt government regulation of cyberspace as a solution. There are concerns that such…
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…