Nate Ellis reports: Tech-savvy Upper Arlington High School students recently used their know-how and computers issued by the district to access privileged information of their peers, according to school officials. District officials informed parents via email Oct. 5 that “some students” had discovered a way to use their district-issued laptop computers to access an active…
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Turkey blocks Google, Microsoft and Dropbox services to ‘suppress’ mass email leaks
Jason Murdock reports: In an attempt to curb the spread of leaked emails from a high-ranking government official, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to a slew of well-known technology and cloud services in the country, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive. According to Turkey Blocks, a web monitoring organisation that reported the outages, the nationwide…
Va. launches investigation after discovering 20-30 boxes of veterans’ records in ex-Veterans Services employee’s storage unit
Mark Bowes reports: A state investigation is underway after authorities said they discovered 20 to 30 boxes of documents, including claims filed by veterans, in a storage unit once leased by a former Virginia Department of Veterans Services employee who worked at the agency’s veterans benefits office at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Veterans Services…
Fife police officer’s data protection breach trial begins
The Courier reports: A policewoman said to have been “badly hurt” in the incident that led to the death of Sheku Bayoh went on trial today accused of accessing “personal” police data. Nicole Short faces Data Protection Act charges at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court. Detective Inspector Charles Duncan, 51, told the trial that Short was assigned to…
NY: Corinth pharmacist used customer ID to steal opioid
Times Union reports: A Saratoga County pharmacist was arrested Monday after she assumed a customer’s identity in order to steal hydrocodone, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office said Mary B. Murphy, 48, of Ballston Spa, was charged with second-degree forgery and first-degree identity theft and falsifying a business record. Read more on Times Union.
Ex-Arkansas hospital orderly sentenced for identity theft
AP reports: A Texas man has been sentenced to two years in prison for theft and for stealing the identities of patients at an Arkansas hospital where he was an orderly. Federal court records show 28-year-old Sir John Ashley Holliday of Dallas was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock after pleading guilty in May…