Rebecca Buchan reports: A policeman who searched his work computer database for restricted information about his sisters has been handed an absolute discharge. During the course of one day, Keith Knowles accessed seven crime files while at work at Woodhill House, Westburn Road. The documents – relating to his siblings Lynn Robertson and Veronica Knowles…
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Former federal agents in Silk Road investigation charged with bitcoin money laundering and wire fraud
Two former federal agents have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and related offenses for stealing digital currency during their investigation of the Silk Road, an underground black market that allowed users to conduct illegal transactions over the Internet. The charges are contained in a federal criminal complaint issued on March 25, 2015, in…
Ontario’s sole health privacy prosecution quietly dismissed
Olivia Carville reports: The first person ever prosecuted under Ontario’s health privacy law for allegedly prying into almost 6,000 patient records no longer faces charges because of the “curious” way the Crown handled the case, a court has ruled. Against a backdrop of growing calls for more prosecutions under this law, the potentially precedent-setting case…
Former Aetna employee arrested; found in possession of members’ identity information
Aetna Insurance has also reported a breach in recent months, but unlike the Anthem and Premera Blue Cross breaches, the Aetna breach does not appear to have been a massive one. In a letter dated January 8, the insurance company notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that six Maryland residents were among those being notified that their information had…
Guilty plea entered in fraud, ID theft case
The Stockton Record reports: A Roseville woman has been convicted in San Joaquin County after she collected thousands of dollars from an annuity scheme using the identities of employees from Stockton Unified School District and other area school districts. Magaly Morales, 52, pleaded to one count of felony insurance fraud with a white collar enhancement…
Allegations of Indirect Access Held Insufficient To State Claim Under CFAA – Court
David J. Clark of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., writes: On March 20, 2015, a California federal court rejected an expansive reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) urged by two plaintiff corporations that sought to hold a competitor and two of its directors liable under the CFAA, under an agency theory, for the actions…