Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Guatemalan national was sentenced in federal court yesterday for aggravated identity theft in connection to a conspiracy to provide false identity documents so that more than 100 illegal immigrants could fraudulently obtain driver’s and non-driver’s licenses from the license office in…
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11 high school students disciplined for keylogging teachers’ computers
Cyrus Farivar has the update to the case of students involving in hacking to change grades at Corona del Mar High School: A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six…
Vengeful EnerVest Operating network engineer pleads guilty to intentionally damaging computer system
CHARLESTON – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a former network engineer at Charleston-based EnerVest Operating pleaded guilty to intentionally causing damage to his employer’s computer system. Ricky Joe Mitchell, 34, now of Mableton, GA, admitted that in June of 2012, shortly after he learned that he was going to be fired, he…
Northern Kentucky IRS Financial Technician Sentenced To 28 Months For Stealing Identities And Committing Mail Fraud
A financial technician, employed in an office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) located in Boone County, Ky., was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for unlawfully accessing an IRS computer to obtain personal information about taxpayers. U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 33-year-old Joy Fox of Independence, Ky., on Thursday for aiding and…
CA: Parents: Hacking in school reaches beyond 11 facing expulsion
Lauren Steussy and Melody Petersen have an update to a breach previously reported on this blog: Parents of some of the students accused of cheating at Corona del Mar High School are questioning why their children have been targeted for expulsion, arguing the scope of the scandal spans far more widely. In letters sent recently to…
CN: Two hospital staff jailed for data theft
Global Times reports that a pharmacist and a buyer employed by Ruijin Hospital in Huangpu District (Shanghai, China) have both been sentenced to a year in jail for selling medication usage data to pharmaceutical companies. According to their report, which was based on coverage on Shanghai Television Station: Wang and Le had been working together…