David Ovalle reports: As an employee of Florida’s Department of Children & Families, Clara Builes was in charge of approving applications for public-assistance benefits for the poor. But Miami-Dade prosecutors say that for nearly four years, she used her position to help steal the the identities of several unsuspecting people, getting fraudulent benefit cards used…
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AU: A junior Defence staffer allegedly took home an intelligence report and posted it online
Christopher Knaus and Michael Inman report: An Australian spy agency says it has no way of knowing who has obtained a “highly sensitive” report meant for our top allies after it was allegedly leaked by a junior defence bureaucrat on an online forum. In an embarrassing security breach, a 21-year-old Department of Defence graduate allegedly managed to download a secret…
Police fear assisted living home operator may stolen multiple patients’ identities
Adam Walser reports: An unlicensed St. Petersburg assisted living facility that cared for the elderly may have actually been stealing some of their identities, according to law enforcement. There’s no sign at Access Adult Family Care Home at 2895 38th Ave. N., but police and the Florida Department of Health say that until several hours…
Man convicted of identity theft, fake organizations for veterans
Austin Baird reports: For the better part of three years, Alan Michael Bartlett of Owosso, Mich., was the leader of U.S. Disabled Veterans, LLC and U.S. Handicapped-Disadvantaged Services, LLC. The organizations sound noble enough, but a jury on Monday found the 46-year-old guilty of using the businesses as a front to defraud dozens of people…
Confidential Economic Freedom Fighters files stolen
Megan Ellis reports: Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema’s office was burgled, with confidential EFF files reported stolen. The burglary occured in Malema’s parliamentary office. “When the EFF Parliamentary support staff arrived in the office of the CIC Julius Malema in the morning of the 29th of July 2015, they found that the office…
China Jails TV Hacker for 12 Years Over Anti-Govt Broadcast
Another case where a disgruntled employee wreaks havoc. AFP reports: An engineer who hacked into a Chinese cable television system has been jailed for 12 years, state media reported, after he broadcast denunciations of the ruling Communist party — including showing the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” image. Wang Yibo accessed the cable feed to 465,000 set-top…