Jessica Mazzola reports: An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal authorities said. Anchi Hou, 61, a retired employee of DuPont, was charged was theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying and stealing the files from…
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Former Allegro worker accused of inserting ‘time bomb’ in company network
Craig S. Semon reports: A Shrewsbury man is accused of hacking into the main computer network of his former employer, Allegro MicroSystems, and uploading and inserting malicious computer programming code. Nimesh Patel, of 1 Ptarmigan Drive, Shrewsbury, is charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespassing and conversion. Read more on The Telegram.
Top Mexican cop leaked sensitive info to drug cartels, prosecutors charge
Jason Meisner reports: As a top Mexican police commander, Ivan Reyes Arzate was trusted for years with the most sensitive information surrounding U.S. investigations of dangerous cartel drug traffickers, from notorious Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the violent offshoot faction known as Beltran-Leyva. But last fall, after secret details about a Chicago-based…
Auditor: City employee improperly used personal information database
Lynnsey Gardner reports: A Duval County clerk of courts employee is under fire after a City Council auditor’s report showed the employee improperly accessed personal information from a statewide database. The Driver and Vehicle Information Database contains a wealth of confidential personal information for Florida drivers — such as driver’s license number, home address, license…
Tampa man sentenced for his role in data breach at local medical practice
Frances McMorris reports: One of three men indicted last year for stealing the personal patient information from a Tampa medical practice to create fraudulent credit cards and steal tax refunds was sentenced to six years in federal prison Tuesday. Anthony Michael Harris, 26, of Tampa was sentenced for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft by U.S….
Lucchese Computer Hacker Pleads Guilty
Andra Litton reports: A disgruntled ex-employee of Lucchese Boots plead guilty to one count of transmission of a program to cause damage to a computer in federal court after he hacked into the Lucchese computer network after he’d been fired and managed to shut down the company’s e-mail server and application server in the September….