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…
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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…
IKEA investigating whether employee information was stolen at Pittsylvania Co. plant
IKEA is investigating its factory in Danville after an employee hired to work in human resources gave a fake social security number. The company told WDBJ7 in a statement today that person has been fired. IKEA is providing all employees in Danville with six months of free credit monitoring service as an extra security measure. More on WDBJ7….
UK: ICO prosecutes Transport for London employee for snooping
From the ICO’s enforcement listings: A former support clerk working for Transport for London has been prosecuted at Westminster Magistrates Court for unlawfully accessing the oyster card records of five individuals who were family members and neighbours. Bernard Fernandes was fined £240, ordered to pay a victims surcharge of £20 and £618 prosecution costs. via…
Breaking up is hard to do: Law firms clash over laptops taken by departing lawyers
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A battle over laptops taken by lawyers to a new law firm failed to reach a settlement last week during a three-hour session before a magistrate judge. The suit by Pennsylvania insurance boutique Nelson Brown Hamilton & Krekstein initially sought the return of laptops taken by 14 departing lawyers to Lewis,…
UK: Data loss at Portland school sparks inquiries
The Dorset Echo reports: An investigation is underway after a confidential school document wasn’t properly disposed off at a prison. The Young Offender Institution (YOI) on Portland had been providing the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) with a confidential waste disposal service. A letter was sent to parents of pupils last week informing them that a document hadn’t been…