So an employee engaged in naughty (illegal) conduct with respect to some of the customers’ accounts, and now you have to notify all customers whose data he may have accessed in the normal course of his duties? That’s what happened to Golden 1 Credit Union. From their notification template: We are writing to inform you of a…
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PA: Abington postal clerk jailed for stealing customers’ credit card info
Margaret Gibbons reports: A Philadelphia man who used his former employment at the U.S. Post Office in Abington for a credit card fraud operation is going to jail. Rashaad Calif Schell, 25, of the 5500 block of North Third Street, was sentenced Wednesday to eight to 23 months and an additional six-year probation sentence after…
Ca: Toronto man arrested following identity theft investigation
CityNews reports: After a two-month investigation, Halton police have charged a 48-year-old Toronto man with making identity information available for a fraudulent purpose. Moussa Kante, a former employee of GM Financial, was allegedly providing customers’ identity information to counterfeiters. Read more on CityNews.
A third of workers admit they’d leak sensitive biz data for peanuts
John Leyden reports: A third of employees would sell information on company patents, financial records and customer credit card details if the price was right. A poll of 4,000 employees in the UK, Germany, USA and Australia found that for £5,000, a quarter would flog off sensitive data, potentially risking both their job and criminal…
I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga
Nirmal Ghosh reports: Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo – who is now in jail in Thailand in connection with trying to blackmail his former employer, PetroSaudi, which is entangled in a huge scandal involving the Malaysian government – has claimed that he was promised US$2 million (S$2.7 million) in exchange for data he stole from…
IN: Two former employees of Essar Refinery accused of data theft
The Business Standard reports: Police have registered cases against two former employees of the oil refinery project of Essar Group in Gujarat for hacking the company’s computer system and sending sensitive data outside during the ‘notice-period’ after resigning. […] As per the complaints filed by Chetan Mavadiya, an Essar officer, the accused hacked the company’s computer system…