Julian Ho and Jessie Shen report: Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau has received a request from Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) to investigate an engineer suspected of stealing confidential company data. According to SPIL, unusual activities were detected within the company’s intranet. In order to protect the company’s confidential data and information, SPIL has therefore submitted a request…
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Ca: Nurse accused of snooping into patient records loses bid for secret hearing
Theresa Boyle reports: A nurse accused of invading patients’ privacy by snooping into their medical records has lost her bid to have her disciplinary hearing held in secret. A disciplinary panel of the College of Nurses of Ontario denied Mandy Edgerton-Reid’s request to exclude the public, including the media, from a hearing into allegations that…
In: Police Detain Engineering Student for OUAT Website Hacking
The New Indian Express reports: The Commissionerate of Police on Monday tracked down a student of a private engineering college for allegedly hacking the official website of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT). The student, a self-confessed ethical hacker, was identified after police traced his internet protocol (IP) address and proceeded to zero in…
AL: Check cashing business employees charged with ID theft
Matt Elofson reports: Dothan police have arrested two former employees of a local check cashing and small loan business on felony identity theft charges. Dothan Police Lt. Will Glover said police arrested 27-year-old Brittani Monique Watson and 44-year-old Christie Renetta Whitehurst on Thursday as part of an identity theft investigation. Read more on Dothan…
Owner of Tuskegee counseling service convicted on fraud charges; misused patient and children’s info
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange announced the conviction yesterday of the owner of a Tuskegee counseling service for billing the Alabama Medicaid Agency for services that were not provided to Medicaid recipients. Lula Jones Bridges, 53, of Notasulga, is the owner of Hope for Families and Community Services, a nonprofit counseling service. Bridges pleaded guilty today…
Lawsuit against Jacksonville over police misuse of database settles
There’s an update to a lawsuit, noted previously, that alleged that two police officers misused a database to find out information about a highway patrol trooper who issued a speeding ticket to a Miami police officer in 2011. The trooper sued after being harassed, alleging violations of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act. The city would later claim, as…