walakelliejones reports: Fox10 News has discovered an investigation is underway to find out whether or not Mobile County License Commissioner Kim Hastie violated federal law by allegedly giving city residents’ personal information to a political campaign. Two Mobilians, Anitra Diamond and Lebarron Yates, have filed claims against Mobile County officials. In their claims, they state…
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UK: Crown Office worker guilty of leaking court case details
The Herald Scotland reports: A Crown Office worker has been found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act and Data Protection Act by leaking information about court cases to people he knew. Iain Sawers, 25, was convicted after a seven-day trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. A jury returned guilty verdicts on charges of attempting to…
Update: Man who stole fellow soldiers’ identity info sentenced to two years in prison
Amy Forliti of AP has update to a previously reported breach: A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to stealing identification information from members of his former Army unit at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg has been sentenced to two years in prison. Keith Michael Novak was sentenced Friday in federal court on one count of identity theft. Read more on…
FL: Pompano woman faces up to 32 years in prison for involvement in ID theft fraud
Another follow-up to a previously reported case. Emily Miller reports: A Pompano Beach woman faces up to 32 years in prison for her participation in an identity theft fraud scheme involving personal identifying information from AT&T customer files. Monique Smith, 31, of Pompano Beach, has pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit…
Judge revokes US citizenship of woman possibly involved in data security breach
Well, this is a bit different. Andrew Becker has an intriguing side note to a breach involving the Arizona Counter Terrorism Center that he previously reported with ProPublica: A federal judge in Arizona has ordered the U.S. government to revoke the citizenship of a woman at the center of a 2007 security breach involving a…
UK: Computer hacker shut down Derbyshire holiday firm website in dispute over payment
Martin Naylor reports: A computer hacker shut down the website of a Derbyshire holiday firm with which he was in dispute “in an act of petty revenge”. A judge told Glyn Berrington that what he had done to Ashbourne-based Menorca Private Owners “was like stealing a workman’s tools”. Derby Crown Court heard how Berrington, 49, had that…