There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Talashia Hinton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to using information stolen from state of Alabama databases maintained by the state of Alabama to file false tax returns and steal millions from the government. The indictment contends that Hinton worked with co-conspirators to file…
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Former U.S. Government Employee Charged in Computer Hacking and Cyber Stalking Scheme
A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded…
Ex-Yahoo employee admits leaking information to author of Marissa Mayer book
Matt O’Brien reports: In a case that sends a chilling message to gossipy Silicon Valley tech workers, a former Yahoo employee has admitted in court papers that she broke her employment agreement by leaking confidential information to a journalist who wrote a book about CEO Marissa Mayer. Cecile Lal, sued by Yahoo in May for…
Planet Fitness accuses former employee of stealing personnel data
Scott Dolan reports: The parent company of the popular Planet Fitness gym chain Monday fired a Maine man who worked as its payroll manager, accusing him of stealing “highly sensitive personal and financial information” about its employees. Planet Fitness, based in Newington, New Hampshire, made the accusations public in a lawsuit filed against the fired…
NL: “Bored” former Jumbo employee gets community service, fine, for hacking firm’s computers
Janene Van Jaarsveldt reports: A company inspector working at the Jumbo supermarket chain has to pay 30 thousand euros in compensation for hacking into nearly 100 corporate laptops. The court in Den Bosch made this ruling on Monday, Omroep Brabant reports. The 37 year old man from Helmond was also sentenced to 120 hours of…
Florida Highway Patrol trooper sues two Jacksonville cops, alleging they illegally looked up her information
Here we go again – cops behaving badly with databases. Andrew Panzati reports: After a Florida Highway Patrol trooper ticketed a Miami police officer for driving 120 mph, FDLE records showed that about 90 people across the state — including two Jacksonville police officers — looked up the trooper’s personal information using a police database…