The cyber cell of Bidhannagar city police today arrested a youth on charges of stealing and selling confidential details of the clients of an IT company to various cyber crime rackets, causing losses amounting to Rs 2.5 crore, police said. Police arrested Arijit Debnath from Salt Lake Sector-V and seized a pen drive and a mobile phone which were used to steal and keep customer details of the IT…
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UK: Former The Gas Superstore employee sentenced for revenge hacking
Here we go again: another disgruntled former employee with IT skills wrecks havoc on their former employer. The Leicester Mercury reports that The Gas Superstore lost £41,000 and had to stop trading for three days because of Andrew Kenneth Plumb’s actions. Reporter Suzy Gibson notes: He cancelled customers’ deliveries and uploaded pictures of Coronation Street characters,…
FL: Former Employee of the U.S. Postal Service and Co-Defendant Sentenced for Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
Two individuals, including a former employee of the U.S. Postal Service, have been sentenced for their participation in an identity theft tax refund fraud scheme. Shawn Hawes, 34, of Miami, was sentenced to 62 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Kelly Urseles Roberts, 39, of Miami, was sentenced on May 19, 2015 to…
Buffalo Heart Group discovers insider wrongdoing involving patient information
Jill Perkins of WKBW in Buffalo, New York posted a statement from attorneys for the Buffalo Heart Group: The Buffalo Heart Group, LLP, a local medical practice, uncovered a serious breach of its computer system that took place in the Spring, 2014 and affected between 500 and 600 of its patients. The recently completed internal…
MS Sheriff’s Office Employee Used Stolen IDs to File Fraudulent Tax Returns
United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted a Mississippi woman for being part of a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities and causing the refunds to be mailed to post office boxes in Louisiana. Shannon A. Brumfield, 48, of Byram, Miss., was indicted on…
Wearable tech firm Jawbone sues rivals Fitbit over data theft
John Glenday reports: Wearable devices and consumer technology specialist Jawbone has launched legal action against rivals Fitbit after accusing its competitor of poaching as many as 15 staff members who copied intellectual property and trade data onto USB sticks as they left. The lawsuit names five former employees who are thought to have been directly…