Sean Gallagher reports on an interesting revelation concerning the second data breach at the University of Maryland: A whitehat hacker from the Baltimore suburbs went too far in his effort to drive home a point about a security vulnerability he reported to a client. Now he’s unemployed and telling all on reddit. David Helkowski was working…
Category: Insider
Update to VALIC databreach
Gene Valicenti has an update on the VALIC databreach reported previously on this blog. The breach generated a number of questions, including why it took so long for the life insurance and retirement plan firm to figure out what happened and why it took so long for them to determine who needed to be notified…
FL: Call center employee and 7 others charged in ID theft fraud scheme involving AT&T customer info
A 22-count indictment charging eight defendants with participating in a conspiracy to unjustly enrich themselves by stealing personal identifying information of AT&T customers and using the information to make unauthorized wire transfers from the victims’ bank accounts and obtain unauthorized credit or debit cards has been unsealed in the Southern District of Florida. The indictment…
Federal court ruling in Carnegie Strategic Design Engineers v. Cloherty applies narrow interpretation of CFAA
Robert R. Baron, Jr., David S. Fryman, Corinne Militello, and Philip N. Yannella of Ballard Spahr write: A Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge has tossed an employer’s claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), holding that the CFAA does not extend to punish employees for the misuse of information that was accessed with permission….
BBC confirms ‘data protection breach’
BBC reports: The BBC has said it is “urgently investigating” a breach of data protection by a former TV researcher. The researcher, employed by an independent production company, spent four days working on Monday’s Panorama. The show found that Lutfur Rahman, Tower Hamlets’ mayor, had increased funding to some Bengali-run charities. Opponents accused him of…
TX: Document Shredding Company Employee Eyed in ID Theft Ring
Scott Gordon reports: A Fort Worth man who worked for a document shredding company did not destroy bank records and instead shared them with thieves, according to court documents. The number of potential victims is in the thousands and the total loss may be in the millions of dollars, a law enforcement source told NBC…