Katlyn Smith provides an update on a previously noted breach: Two 16-year-old Bartlett High School students face felony charges after authorities say they hacked into the school’s computer system. One of the male students was charged with aggravated computer tampering and the other was charged with computer fraud, police said Tuesday. Their names are not…
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Two Plead Guilty in New York Identity Theft Case
Colin Wilhelm reports: Two defendants in an alleged identity theft ring that targeted banks in New York City and Westchester County have pleaded guilty. Tyrone Lee and Anthony Davis admitted on Tuesday to orchestrating thefts of customer information using bank tellers at branches. Using data gained from tellers who cooperated in the ring, Lee stole…
Police commander sacked over ‘sensitive leak’
BBC reports: A London police borough commander has been sacked by a disciplinary panel for giving details of a “sensitive” police investigation to a journalist. Det Ch Supt Andy Rowell was dismissed without notice after a disciplinary panel found allegations of gross misconduct against him had been proven. The panel heard he had let a…
MN: St. Francis police officer subject of criminal investigation over possible data breach
Shannon Prather reports: In what could be one of the first tests of the state’s new tougher data practices laws, the police chief in St. Francis recently initiated a criminal investigation into one of his own officers on allegations that he illegally accessed private data. The officer is accused of viewing recordings of candidates interviewing…
Ex-Citadel employee sentenced to three years for data theft
Bloomberg reports: A former Citadel LLC employee who admitted stealing data from the Chicago-based investment firm as well as high-frequency trading computer code from a New Jersey company was sentenced to three years in prison. Yihao “Ben” Pu, who was charged in 2011, pleaded guilty in August to stealing proprietary information from Citadel in 2011 and to…
GA: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen hacker
Donna Lowry reports: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen who they believe hacked into his teachers’ emails for nine months. The district sent home a letter today to parents of students at North Springs Charter High School telling them that last year, a student gained access to the email login information for 21…