Suzy Gibson reports: A police officer who gained unauthorised access to information on force computers could be facing a jail sentence. PC Andrew Clay, 50, appeared at Leicester Crown Court to plead guilty to six charges of securing unauthorised access to computer material, between September 2002 and March 2013. Five counts relate to seeking information about…
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Cyber angst: Orange County companies zero in on data breaches
Margot Roosevelt reports: Last year, according to the Mount Olympus Mortgage Co. in Irvine, several of its officers secretly downloaded confidential information on hundreds of loan customers and transferred five gigabytes of data to a competitor. The loan officers then deleted files and emails on their computers and went to work for that rival, Chicago-based lender Guaranteed…
TX: Socorro Independent School District student charged with breach of the district’s computer system
Ashleigh Rodriguez reports: The Socorro Independent School District spent $8,000 this weekend, cleaning up a number of Eastlake High computers. A student downloaded malware, or a malicious program to the school’s computer system. […] After spending the weekend checking 1,000 computers, they found out he had only infected 16. Reyna said he was attempting to…
NY: Teen accused of hacking high school, improving grades (updated)
Frank Rosario, Erin Calabrese and Natalie O’Neill report: A tech-savvy Staten Island high-school student who studied advanced computer programming at an NYU camp used his skills to hack into a secure computer system and improve his scores, sources told The Post Thursday. Eric Walstrom, 16, a junior at New Dorp HS, made it past a…
TX: Missouri City Woman Charged with Stealing More Than $1 Million from Former Employer
Michelle Robyn Freytag, 47, was arrested last week, following the return of a 20-count federal indictment alleging wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment, returned Feb. 11, 2015, alleges Freytag was hired in April 2009 to be the executive assistant for a Houston businessman. Freytag was hired in April 2009, according to the indictment. As…
No longer gagged by law enforcement stay, Kaplan University begins notifying students of breach (updated)
On June 4, 2014, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General, Criminal Investigative Division notified Kaplan University (KU) that a former KU employee had stolen some students’ information, but placed a stay on notifying the affected students because of the criminal investigation. That stay was lifted this month, and KU began notifying affected students…