Nicky Woolf reports: Four men have been charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US army and leading games manufacturers, as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100m in intellectual property, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The four, aged between 18 and 28, are…
Category: Government Sector
Yet More IRS Employees Busted for Stealing Taxpayers’ Identities
J.D. Tuccille writes: It’s hard to keep up with the privacy-threatening shenanigans at the Internal Revenue Service, but let’s give it a try. Just days after revealing that the tax agency’s failure to follow its own rules put the private data of 1.4 million people at risk, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration publicized the…
UK: Ardrossan cop breaches Data Protection Act but avoids prosecution
The Ardrossan Herald reports: A local police officer has been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act after a dispute between neighbours, it emerged this week. But John Gribben, of Ardrossan, will not be prosecuted in court after it was found he had unlawfully accessed information using police computer systems. The 44-year-old…
JM: Computer technician in billion-dollar tax theft returns to court today
The Jamaica Observer reports: Christopher Moore, the former Tax Administration Jamaica employee, who reportedly caused the Government to lose in excess of $1 billion in tax revenues, will again appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court today. Allegations are that, between October and December 2013, Moore gained access to the main taxing system for…
National Express print-at-home vulnerability
Paul writes: National Express are one of the biggest public transport companies in the UK with a huge fleet of coaches and trains. This vulnerability discloses customers information to a potential attacker such as the passengers names, destination, last 4 digits of the card, price the customer paid for the tickets and of course the…
UK: Three Aberdeen council workers sacked for breaching data protection rules
David Ewen reports: Three Aberdeen council workers have been sacked for accessing private information about people, the Evening Express can reveal today. The former employees of Aberdeen City Council got their marching orders after breaching the Data Protection Act. A further nine members of staff were reprimanded for misconduct, which included leaking information from a…