Sometimes employees snoop in healthcare or government databases just out of curiosity. Other times, they snoop to obtain information to misuse. That misuse could involve financial fraud such as tax refund fraud, or it could involve tormenting your neighbor, according to a lawsuit in Santa Rosa, California. Paul Payne of the Press Democrat reported on a case…
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Ex-Pratt & Whitney Engineer Denied Bail In Data Theft Suit
Daniel Wilson reports: A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday denied bail to a former Pratt & Whitney engineer accused of stealing sensitive proprietary military aircraft information and unlawfully attempting to take that information to China, after prosecutors argued he was an “obvious” flight risk. Yu Long has been charged with printing out proprietary documents related to advanced materials…
PA: Amazon employee charged with stealing credit card info
Eric Mark reports: West Pittston police have charged an employee of Amazon with stealing credits from customer gift cards and adding them to her own Amazon account. Amanda Budurka, 23, of Hanover Township, was arraigned on felony counts of theft by unlawful taking and access device fraud on Friday before Magisterial District Judge Joseph Carmody….
NC: Nurse, pastor’s wife pleads guilty to ID theft
Diane Turbyfill reports: A Belmont woman used her position as a nurse and pastor’s wife to defraud two elderly people. Deborah Costner Taylor pleaded guilty in court Friday to identity theft and obtaining property by false pretense. […] She is married to the pastor of East Belmont Baptist Church and worked at CaroMont Regional Medical…
How the HSBC whistleblower used the Internet to leak private bank information to the police
Stefano Pozzeban reports: Hervé Falciani, the French-Italian whistleblower who handed over information on 100,000 HSBC client accounts to French authorities in 2009, has published a detailed account on how the transfer of the data actually took place. The IT engineer has published a book, La Cassaforte degli Evasori, which tells his side of the story, writing how he…
Hacker Admits Sabotaging Long Island Company
There’s a follow-up to a breach involving Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation first noted on this site in May, 2013. Thomas Bolger reports: A software programmer formerly from Smithtown has admitted to hacking into and sabotaging a Long Island-based company’s computer network in retaliation for being passed over for promotions three years ago. Michael Meneses…