AP reports: Federal prosecutors say a former IRS employee in Central California stole the identities of her co-workers and opened credit cards to go on shopping sprees with friends. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced Tuesday that 30-year-old Viririana Hernandez and three others stole $1.2 million from 160 people, many of them IRS employees. Prosecutors say…
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Ie: Private investigator to be tried over data breaches in October
Elaine Edwards reports: A private investigator charged in relation to alleged breaches of data protection legislation will be tried in October. Michael J Gaynor, trading as MJG Investigations, Beatty Grove, Celbridge, Co Kildare, was before Dublin District Court this morning facing a prosecution by the Data Protection Commissioner. Mr Gaynor faced 72 criminal charges in…
Ca: Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, accused in CRA Heartbleed hack, due in court
CBC News reports: The Western University student charged in a security breach of Revenue Canada‘s website is scheduled to make his first appearance in an Ottawa courtroom today. Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, 19, of London, Ont., is charged with one count of unauthorized use of a computer and one count of mischief in relation to data…
Supposed ‘leader’ of LulzSec, ‘Aush0k,’ pleads guilty to hacking, hubris
From the how-much-can-we-hype-this-before-they-catch-on dept.: Richard Chirgwin reports: Matthew Flannery, once paraded by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as the “leader” of international hacking collective LulzSec, has pleaded guilty to the five remaining charges against him, in Gosford Local Court. […] The only victim of his work identified in public was the Narrabri Shire Council in the Australian…
Unclear whether OPM hackers accessed feds’ names
NextGov reports: The Office of Personnel Management is not required to tell employees whether attackers who recently breached a human resources database saw their names. The hackers, believed to be from China, apparently wanted files on staff who have applied for top-secret security clearances, The New York Times previously reported. OPM and the Department of Homeland Security — the…
UK: ICO hit by data security breach
Desire Athow reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the entity in charge of making sure British organisations (and the government) keep private data secure, has been hit by a data security breach. The snafu was published in the ICO’s annual report and the body has, according to the Times, been less than amicable when it comes…