Abhijit Sathe reports: The state IT authority has ordered a Japanese engineering company’s Indian arm to pay a Pune firm Rs 40 lakh [US $6748.15] for stealing the latter’s confidential data, including e-mails, in bid to snatch its customers. Endo Kogyo India Private Limited carried out the alleged theft of business secrets with the help…
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Wyndham Vacation Resorts reports an insider breach
As if Wyndham didn’t have enough problems from a number of breaches it experienced a few years ago, it seems that they may have had an insider breach, too. In a report to the Maryland Attorney General dated March 12, Stratis Pridgeon, Group Vice President of Legal Services for Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. (which includes…
AU: Arrest made over police data breach
Thomas O’Byrne reports: Detectives have made a fresh arrest as investigations continue into a major information breach at Victoria Police. Detectives from Taskforce Keel – commissioned last month to investigate a major leak of confidential police files – announced on Friday that they had arrested a 38-year-old Seddon man. Police have charged the man with…
NYS DMV clerk charged with illegal search of DMV records
New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott announced today that a Seneca County clerk has been charged with illegally accessing the computer records of a local motorist. Patricia I. Bourne, a 56-year-old License Clerk from Waterloo, was charged with 11 felony counts of Computer Trespass and one misdemeanor count of Official Misconduct for repeatedly…
Utah DMV reveals data breach discovered in March
Michael McFall reports: A Utah Division of Motor Vehicles employee was fired in March after the agency discovered she allegedly gave out people’s personal information. In response to a Salt Lake Tribune inquiry, DMV spokesman Charlie Roberts confirmed that the agency first learned from the Salt Lake City Fire Department in mid-March that the employee, who was…
Stockton Police Chief Arrested for Identity Theft Stemming from Love Triangle
Another case where someone in law enforcement hacked and misused a law enforcement database for personal reasons? The chief of police is the last person you expect to be arrested, but on Tuesday deputies from the Jo Daviess Sheriff’s Department took Stockton Police Chief Robert Beeter into custody. Beeter’s charges of 16 counts of identity theft…