CHICAGO — An information technology specialist has been indicted on a federal criminal charge for allegedly hacking into the server of a suburban Chicago health care company where he formerly worked as a contractor. AARON LOCKNER illegally accessed the server of the health care company, which operated a clinic in Oak Lawn, Ill., on April…
Category: Insider
Bayonne Police Sergeant Charged With Unauthorized Use of Law Enforcement Database
Statement by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office: Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez has released the following information: On Tuesday, May 24, 2022, a Bayonne Police Sergeant was arrested on a computer crime charge involving the unauthorized use of a law enforcement database. Richard Killmer, 33, is charged with one count of Computer Theft in violation…
Former top Republican lawmaker in Colorado received leak of voting data
Alexandra Ulmer reports: A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with activists seeking to prove President Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims, according to court records reviewed by Reuters. The revelation indicates the breach of ballot data…
Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
Bill Toulas reports: Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company’s data. Bing allegedly performed the act in June 2018, when he used his administrative privileges and “root” account to access the company’s…
Over 1,200 IDF soldiers examined after WSJ leak on naval ops against Iran
Tzvi Joffre reports: The communications of about 1,200 IDF soldiers were examined and 10 officials were questioned after information about Israeli strikes on Iranian ships was leaked to The Wall Street Journal last year. […] The IDF told the State Attorney that over 1,200 soldiers were exposed to the secrets about the operations, while only about 450…
Sheffield nurse Paul Grayson sentenced to 12 years for covert filming of hospital patients and staff
A nurse who “grotesquely breached” his position of trust when he covertly made indecent videos of staff and patients at a hospital in Sheffield has been jailed. Some of Paul Grayson’s victims were unconscious and recovery after surgery when he filmed up their gowns at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. He also installed cameras in the hospital toilets…