An update to a hacking case involving an NYPD detective that was previously noted on this blog (here). Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), pled guilty to computer hacking crimes. Specifically, Vargas paid others to hack into e-mail accounts, including e-mail accounts belonging to other NYPD officers and employees, and…
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Update: Baltimore County finds additional personal info on contents stolen from hard drive
An update to the breach reported in this blog entry. As if the breach wasn’t bad enough already, further investigation revealed: … individual checking and bank routing numbers were also stolen. Those particular files of 6,633 employees were also improperly copied from a County employee’s work computer on May 9, 2012. In a letter that…
Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords – sources
Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel report that Edward Snowden successfully socially engineered employees at the NSA into giving him their login credentials: Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to…
CT: Stamford Cablevision employee stole customer credit card info at walk-in center
Greg Canuel reports: A former employee of the Cablevision walk-in center in Norwalk was accused Wednesday of stealing customers’ credit card information, according to police reports. Residents from Norwalk and Stamford contacted the Norwalk Police Department in August after noticing fraudulent charges on their credit card bills, police said. Both reported that they had visited…
Baltimore police officer pleads to extortion and ID theft
Ian Duncan reports: A Baltimore police officer pleaded guilty to identity theft and extortion Wednesday after being caught in an elaborate FBI sting that involved an informant posing as a crooked tax preparer and heroin dealer. Over the course of this spring, Ashley Roane, 26, worked with the informant to try to file false tax…
Who’s running^^^^^^^ ruining the store?
On October 22, Global Times reported: YTO Express, one of China’s largest express delivery companies, has been unable to stop employees from selling customer information to online dealers, despite its ongoing efforts to stamp out the practice, a company spokesman said Tuesday. The company’s admission illustrates the difficulty that the express delivery industry has had…