There’s an update on a case previously noted on this site and elsewhere involving a student hacking his school’s computer system and the city’s Education Department computers to change his grades. Frank Donnelly reports that Eric Walstrom of New Dorp pleaded guilty Wednesday in state Supreme Court, St. George, to felony and misdemeanor counts of computer…
Category: Insider
CA: Davis Apartment Manager Accused of ID Theft; Police Suspect More Victims
Lonnie Wong reports: Davis police investigators say they believe there are many more victims of an apartment manager who was arrested on suspicion of stealing the identities of prospective tenants. William Raymond Stanley, Jr., was known as Erik Hamilton to tenants and the owners of the Tuscany Villas Apartments in East Davis. But the 30-year-old…
Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Employee Pleads Guilty to Attempted Spear-Phishing Cyber-Attack on Department of Energy Computers
There’s a follow-up to a case I first noted in May of 2015. Charles Harvey Eccleston, 62, a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal offense stemming from an attempted e-mail “spear-phishing” attack in January 2015 that targeted dozens of DOE…
Ca: Tax agency staffer gone after taxpayer data leaks to CSIS
Alison Crawford reports: No one’s saying much about what happened and who’s been held accountable for several breaches of taxpayer privacy at the Canada Revenue Agency. The privacy breaches came to light last week in the annual report of the watchdog for CSIS, Canada’s spy agency. The report described how intelligence officers, repeatedly and without a warrant,…
Wayne Memorial Hospital fired nurse’s aide who accessed patient records without authorization
PA Homepage reports: A security breach at the Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale causing concerns. Hospital officials tell Eyewitness News they have fired a nurses’s aide who they say accessed patient records without authorization. Now letters have been sent out to 390 people informing them their medical records, including social security numbers, insurance information and diagnoses…
Update: Former worker accused of stealing companies’ data fined $2,000 and given probation.
There’s an update to a court case that I noted on this site in April, 2015, when Thomas A. Wotring, was arrested and indicted on charges he accessed a protected computer on or about July 11, 2012, without authorization, and obtained information for purposes of commercial advantage and private financial gain. The data were allegedly taken from SND…