News12 reports: The village of Mastic Beach says 488 residents may have had their personal information stolen in a data breach by a former employee pretending to be the chief of police. Mayor Maura Spery says an 18-month audit discovered a former village employee illegally accessed highly personal information from a law enforcement database. “The…
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Ex-Verizon worker accused of selling customer phone records
Jeff Martin of AP reports: A former Verizon Wireless technician is accused of using the company’s computers to obtain customers’ private call records — plus data showing where customers’ phones were — and then selling them to an unnamed private investigator, federal prosecutors said. Daniel Eugene Traeger, who worked in Alabama, sold the confidential information…
Alberta Hospital Edmonton notifying 1,300 of snooping employee
Keith Gerein reports: A former employee of Alberta Hospital Edmonton inappropriately accessed the records of more than 1,300 patients, Alberta Health Services announced Monday in what is believed to be the province’s largest deliberate breach of health information. “In terms of a unique individual inappropriately accessing health care records, it is not within the scope…
California congressman sues opponent, alleging violations of CFAA
Another civil case invoking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Jeff Matsuura and Craig Blakeley of Alliance Law Group, LLC write: Representative Mike Honda of California has sued his campaign opponent alleging violations of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The CFAA provides for both criminal and civil actions. Although we often focus on the criminal prosecutions…
CT: Hospital Patients Caught in Identity Theft Ring
NBC reports: Federal investigators say two women orchestrated an identity theft ring that targeted at least 20 people in the greater New Haven area. But it’s how suspects Jamila Williams-Stevenson and Loretta Coburn are said to have gotten some of their victim’s personal information that is most shocking. Authorities said several of the alleged victims…
Probe of leaked U.S. NSA hacking tools examines operative’s ‘mistake’
Joseph Menn and John Walcott report: A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available on a remote computer and Russian hackers found them, four people with direct knowledge of the probe told Reuters. The tools, which…