Elwyn Roberts reports: A businessman turned computer hacker has today been warned that he faces custody. Gavin Paul Prince had previously denied five offences under the Computer Misuse Act. But today he changed his pleas to guilty and Judge David Hale described his actions as seeking revenge against a company. Prince pleaded guilty to unauthorised…
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Charges: State employee hacked into co-worker’s computer
Pat Reavy reports: A state employee was charged Wednesday with illegally getting into his co-worker’s computer, changing her Facebook password and reading her messages. Eric Brian Thompson, 42, of Farmington, is charged in 3rd District Court with computer fraud, a third-degree felony. In May of 2016, Thompson was an employee of the state of Utah,…
UGA student accused of hacking account to change grades
Joe Johnson reports: A University of Georgia student is facing 80 felony counts for allegedly hacking into a professor’s computer to change his grades. Michael Lamon Williams, 21, was booked into the Clarke County Jail Wednesday on nine counts of computer trespass and 71 counts of computer forgery. Williams, a student of UGA’s Terry College…
In: Army Lt Col questioned for data leak
Kalyan Ray reports: A Jabalpur-based Lt Col has been detained and being questioned by the army intelligence officials on the suspicion of data leak. The officer posted at 506 army base workshop was quizzed by the Military Intelligence after the alert by the Intelligence Bureau. “The officer continues with his routine duties in the unit…
ICE lawyer in Seattle charged with stealing immigrants’ identities
AP reports: The chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle has been charged with stealing immigrants’ identities. Raphael A. Sanchez, who resigned from the agency effective Monday, faces one count of aggravated identity theft and another of wire fraud in a charging document filed Monday in U.S. District Court. Prosecutors with the…
Triple-S Advantage notifies 36,305 Puerto Rican members of mailing error involving their information
If you were an entity that wound up as part of a $3.5 million settlement with HHS in 2015, you probably wouldn’t want to be reporting yet another breach to HHS now, particularly if your area was still trying to recover from a major hurricane and crisis. Yet that’s the situation Triple-S Advantage, an independent licensee…