Stephanie Bodoni reports: Two ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers staffers were found guilty in Luxembourg of stealing confidential tax files that helped unleash a global scandal over generous fiscal deals for hundreds of international companies. Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet face suspended sentences of 12 months and 9 months and were ordered to pay fines of 1,500 euros ($1,670) and…
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NL: Eindhoven cop fired for misusing police database, leaking info
Janene Pieters reports: A 46-year-old police officer from Eindhoven was officially dismissed for leaking confidential police information, ANP reports The man was arrested in October last year on suspicion of violating his official secrecy. The Public Prosecutor now decided that he will be prosecuted for that. The Prosecutor believes that he searched for information on…
YKHC Investigating Possible Credit Card Fraud Against Employees
Anna Rose MacArthur reports: Credit card information from Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation employees may have been compromised. YKHC and Bethel Police are investigating. Tiffany Zullkosky of YKHC says the alleged fraud may have been committed by a YKHC employee. The fraud would only affect employees who’ve used personal credit cards while booking combined personal and…
Hacker who stole $50G from George Soros’ foundation sentenced up to six years in prison
Lauren Klose and Reuven Blau report: The computer hacker who stole $50,000 from a nonprofit run by George Soros was sentenced Monday to up to six years in prison. Computer expert David Kupratis, 31, of Parlin, N.J. twice assumed another person’s identity and then filched a laptop computer and cellphone from a third person in…
French police hit by security breach as data put online
BBC reports: The personal details of 112,000 French police officers have been uploaded to Google Drive in a security breach just a fortnight after two officers were murdered at their home by a jihadist. A mutual organisation which provides extra health and other insurance benefits for police says the details were uploaded by a disgruntled…
JP: Teen faces charges over breach of online school grades management system
Kyodo News reports: A second arrest warrant was served on a 17-year-old boy Monday over the theft of some 210,000 digital files containing the grades of students in Saga Prefecture schools, police said. The boy, a resident of the city of Saga, is suspected of accessing an online system used by the prefecture’s public junior…