Home Depot seems to be having a rough year with dishonest employees. In February, this site reported that some employees had been charged with stealing co-workers’ personal information. Over 1200 were notified in California. Now Home Depot has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that between May 7 – May 21, an employee was…
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IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer’s system
Chris Kanaracus reports the follow-up to a case noted previously on this blog involving a disgruntled EnerVest employee: A former network engineer for oil and gas company EnerVest has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to sabotaging the company’s systems badly enough to disrupt its business operations for a month….
Update: Sailor convicted of hacking websites from aboard aircraft carrier
Sean Gallagher reports: A 27-year old now-former sailor pleaded guilty in a federal court in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 20 to charges of conspiracy after leading a band of hackers in the US and Canada from onboard an aircraft carrier. Nicholas Paul Knight, who was the system administrator for the USS Harry S. Truman’s nuclear reactors department, was…
Former Subway franchise owner admits to POS hacking
There’s an update to a Subway breach previously reported here. Jeremy Kirk reports: A former owner of several Subway fast-food restaurants in southern California pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a gift card scheme that involved tampering with several other Subway stores’ computerized cash registers. Federal prosecutors accused Shahin Abdollahi, 46, of Lake Elsinore, California,…
Employees steal data to make good impression in a new job
ALex Hamilton reports: Almost all employees that steal data from their companies do so in order to gain headway in their new job. An overwhelming 95 per cent of all the internal data theft is carried out by an employee who wants to get an advantage once they’ve left the firm, according to a report…
FL: Fast-food customers victimized by ID theft, Coral Springs police say
Another case of a McDonald’s employee using a skimmer to swipe customers’ payment card data. Erika Pesantes reports that the employee was recruited via social media, and the recruiter was nabbed via social media: Police say a North Lauderdale man used social media to recruit the restaurant worker to steal financial information using a skimming device. Adrian…