Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the arrest of XU JIAQIANG for theft of a trade secret, in connection with XU’s theft of proprietary source code from XU’s former…
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Lawsuit: Former employee used computer program to steal trade secrets from Virginia Beach company
Scott Daugherty reports: A Virginia Beach construction company claims a former employee stole trade secrets earlier this year and provided them to a competitor. Unlike most such cases, however, officials with Atlantic Marine Construction Company aren’t arguing the employee stole their proposal sheets and other records before he was fired. Rather, the company claims Christopher…
Mercedes in “data theft” legal action against Ferrari-bound engineer
Valentin Khorounzhiy reports: Mercedes has formally filed a lawsuit against Ferrari-bound engineer Benjamin Hoyle, alleging that he was looking to take sensitive data to the Italian manufacturer. As reported by Bloomberg, Hoyle, who works as a Performance Application Team Leader for Mercedes AMG, informed the manufacturer earlier this year that he would resign at the end…
U. Colorado Health Notifies 827 Patients That Employee Snooped in Their Records
From their public notice: UCHealth in northern Colorado is notifying approximately 800 patients that an employee inappropriately accessed their electronic medical record information. Letters to these patients have already been mailed, and affected patients will receive the letters over the coming days. The privacy and confidentiality of patients’ medical record information is a priority, and…
LA: Opelousas couple pleads guilty to identity theft
Do you really know who’s preparing your taxes? I’ve seen just soooo many cases of tax preparers stealing customers’ identity information for fraud schemes. Here’s another one: An employee of an Opelousas tax preparation business and her boyfriend pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing customers’ identities in order to pocket income tax refunds. Frances Owens, 36,…
IN: Founder of Empowerment Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Found Guilty of fraud, identity theft
Wanda C. Shorter, 43, of Elkhart, Indiana, was found guilty yesterday, after a four-day jury trial of all four counts charged by indictment in a health care billing fraud/aggravated identity theft case. According to documents in this case, Empowerment Non-Emergency Medical Transportation, Inc. (hereafter “Empowerment”) was an enrolled Medicaid provider. Defendant Wanda C. Shorter founded…