Andy Greenberg reports: Thanks in part to America’s ill-defined hacking laws, prosecutors have enormous discretion to determine a hacker defendant’s fate. But in one young Texan’s case in particular, the Department of Justice stretched prosecutorial overreach to a new extreme: about 440 years too far. Last week, prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas reached…
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IE: Credit Union investigator fined €5k over data breach
Tom Tuite provides the update on a previously reported breach: A private investigator has been fined €5,000 after he was convicted of breaking data protection laws by obtaining private personal information held by gardai and the ESB. Judge John O’Neill heard that credit unions hired the services of former garda Michael J Gaynor, now trading as…
Canada Revenue Agency privacy breach leaks prominent Canadians’ tax details
Dean Beeby reports: Detailed tax information about the private lives of hundreds of Canadians — many of them rich and famous — was sent to CBC News by Canada’s tax agency in an apparent major privacy breach. The highly confidential details, including home addresses of taxpayers and the value of tax credits they were granted,…
Judicial agents in Costa Rica probed for snooping on personal data of Real Madrid’s Navas
This was originally published almost one month ago, but I just saw it. AP reports: Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department says 24 of its own agents are being investigated after a database was wrongly used to access personal information about Real Madrid and Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas. Francisco Segura, head of the department, said…
Hackers Vow to Attack More Websites after Ottawa.ca
The dancing banana is just the beginning, Aerith vows. Sam Dixon reports that a group of hackers has defaced the Ottawa City Hall’s web site, but more threateningly, has vowed to target eight other Canadian institutions, including the police and Supreme Court. On Saturday, the group warned that the defacement of Ottawa.ca was “just the…
CO: New skimmer device discovered at RTD station; several victims say money missing from accounts
Marshall Zelinger reports: RTD [Regional Transportation District] customer credit card information has been stolen with the use of a skimmer that the transit company didn’t know about until recently. Read more on TheDenverChannel.