Roi Perez reports: Hitsniffer, a website analytics company, has gone offline after an internal data breach which it claims was carried out by a former member of staff who helped set the company up. According to the company, the member of staff stole a database of all of its clients and is now emailing them…
Category: Insider
Fired Tech Worker Denies Stealing Secrets
Nicholas Iovino reports the latest development in a case previously noted on this site: A fired Silicon Valley tech worker pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to computer fraud charges related to his alleged theft of trade secrets from his former employer last year. Jing Zeng, 43, of San Ramon, was arrested at the San Francisco International Airport in…
Village of Oak Park incident reported to HHS six months later?
So it seems there was a reported insider breach affecting the Village of Oak Park, Illinois earlier this year. It was picked up by their local media at the time, but never reported to HHS. It’s now been reported to HHS, which is what sent me looking for coverage. On February 25, the Cook County Chronicle…
Ca: Massive unreported security breach, $2 million alleged fraud at NorQuest College
Charles Rusnel and Jennie Russell report on a massive insider breach affecting NorQuest College executives and employees. The breach seems to have occurred in 2012, but is first coming to light. At the heart of the breach is Clarence Orleski, the college’s former manager of technology infrastructure. The scope of what he is alleged to have done is extensive,…
Federal court deals blow to Minn. driver data snooping cases
Eric Roper reports: Television personalities, a state representative and Mrs. Minnesota United States 2007 were among the local luminaries who failed to prove that police officers improperly snooped into their driver’s license records, a federal appeals court ruled this week. The opinion is the latest blow to plaintiffs who have swamped cities and counties across…
Indictments in patient data theft from Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology Nutrition of Florida (UPDATED)
As seen in the Tampa Star: Three men have been indicted for stealing the personal patient information of more than 13,000 people from a Tampa medical practice and using it to create fraudulent credit cards and steal tax refunds. The conspiracy to steal the personal patient information of thousands of clients at the Tampa office…