David Ewen reports: Three Aberdeen council workers have been sacked for accessing private information about people, the Evening Express can reveal today. The former employees of Aberdeen City Council got their marching orders after breaching the Data Protection Act. A further nine members of staff were reprimanded for misconduct, which included leaking information from a…
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Ex-wife of former Pacific Grove police commander sentenced to prison for identity theft, fraud
Ana Ceballas reports: Kristin Nyunt, the ex-wife of a former Pacific Grove police commander, was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison Tuesday for fraud, identity theft and several other charges. Upon reviewing “tens of thousands of emails and text messages” and financial documents, the FBI and the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office…
LA: IberiaBank accuses former executives of stealing sensitive data
Billy Gunn reports: IberiaBank Corp. is accusing two former executives of a bank it purchased this year of stealing customer and business information and giving the sensitive data to JD Bank, a Jennings-based business rival formerly known as Jeff Davis Bank & Trust. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Lafayette, IberiaBank claims…
FL: Tax refund fraud scheme involved two insiders misusing databases
WTXL reports that five people have been indicted in a tax refund fraud scheme that included two employees misusing their access to databases. One of those indicted, Katrina Pratt, had been an administrative assistant in human resources at Florida A & M University (FAMU), and allegedly used the identities of 40 students there as part…
Top official fired for records security breach at St. Louis Recorder of Deeds office
Adam McDonald reports: A top official in the St. Louis Recorder of Deeds Office has been fired for a vital records security breach of about 19,000 unauthorized copies of death certificates. The acting Recorder of Deeds, Jennifer Florida, says Preggy Meeker, the alleged suspect, allowed employees to log into Missouri’s vital records system by using…
OH: Ex-Hocking County police chief pleads guilty to misusing crime data system
Mary Beth Lane reported this a few weeks ago: A former Laurelville police chief pleaded guilty yesterday in Hocking County Common Pleas Court to unauthorized use of property. James E. Taylor admitted that he misused the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway to obtain information on people for purposes unrelated to law enforcement. The online secure network…