In May, 2015, federal prosecutors arrested Xiwen Huang, and charged him with corporate espionage. At the time, media reported: Huang worked for a company in New Jersey and later a company in Charlotte that he stole trade secret information from, according to court documents. Huang worked on “catalyst” technology for energy technology companies, investigators said. Prosecutors unveiled…
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Twin Brothers Sentenced for Wire Fraud, Conspiring to Hack into U.S. Department of State and Private Company
There’s another update to the case of the Akhter twin brothers, and it looks like Muneeb Akhter was successful in fending off the prosecution’s request for a 6-year sentence. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern District of Virginia issued a statement yesterday: Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 23, of Springfield, were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit…
Watchdog: Top Secret Service official wanted information about Chaffetz made public
Shades of J. Edgar and dirty politics! I’m classifying this as a privacy breach and also an infosec breach as these data were supposed to be protected. Carol D. Leonnig and Jerry Markon report: The Secret Service’s assistant director urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of the service should be made public,…
Chase Can’t Dodge $10M Identity Theft Suit
Rose Bouboushian reports: Chase Bank must face identity theft claims for employees who let money launderers use a customer’s dormant accounts in a Medicare fraud scheme, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday. Yelena Galper sued JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. in New York state court in May 2013, claiming several of its employees accepted bribes to…
Ca: Tax workers continue to peek at forbidden files: internal reports
Dean Beeby reports: Canada Revenue Agency workers continue to poke into the confidential tax files of friends and foes, despite assurances to Canada’s privacy commissioner that the chronic problem of unauthorized access is being fixed. The 34 significant privacy breaches reported by the CRA to the commissioner in 2014 show all but two were deliberately…
Data breach lawsuit against former parent company of Flowers Hospital survives motion to dismiss
There’s a noteworthy update to a lawsuit against Triad of Alabama, the former parent company for Flowers Hospital, whose employee was convicted on both federal and state charges for stealing and trafficking in patient information for tax refund fraud. The breach and earlier developments in the lawsuit were covered on PHIprivacy.net. Today, Lance Griffin reports that the amended class…