So what do you think the penalty/fine should be for an employee wilfully emailing themselves customer data that they had no business copying and taking? Jail time? A monetary penalty? Community service? Keep in mind that the defendant had to return from Lithuania to be sentenced. Sounds serious, right? BBC reports that Thomas Wengierow, 47, who…
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Insider breach – Shapeshift’s story
@SwiftonSecurity kept telling everyone on Twitter that we #MUSTREAD the story of what happened at Shapeshift.io. And with good reason: it’s a phenomenal account of an insider breach told with the kind of refreshing honesty that’s often missing in most breach disclosures. It also reads like a thriller. I’m going to give readers a different…
SG: Ex-staff sergeant jailed for abetting unauthorized data access and other crimes
Elena Chong reports on a case in Singapore where a police officer in the Clementi police division of the Singapore Police has been sentenced to jail for soliciting a colleague who then accessed the the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s computer system to check on a friend’s former boyfriend. Rishinder, a Singapore permanent resident, was yesterday sentenced…
UK: Met officers ‘hacked database to leak name of protected witness’
Another “small breach with huge potential impact.” Press Association reports: Police detention officers leaked the identity of an anonymous witness in a murder trial after hacking into the intelligence database, a court has heard. Rupert Ross, 34, and Leon De St Aubin, 38, were both sentenced to life imprisonment for the “vicious execution” of Darcy…
AZ: Gilbert Public Schools email hacked by junior high school student
AP reports: A junior high school student reportedly hacked into the email system of Gilbert Public Schools and sent inappropriate messages to other students. District officials said the Highland Junior High student got access to the teacher’s login information and emailed messages to other students over the weekend. Read more on The Arizona Republic. And the…
Intermedix data breach class action case dismissed
Linn Foster Freedman has an update to the Intermedix data breach litigation filed last year: On May 3, 2016, the parties to the suit agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice with no payment of attorneys’ fees, costs or other expenses to the other party, which means that each party is to bear its own costs….