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….
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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…
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…