Out-Law.com reports: A man who sold databases belonging to a former employer on eBay has been found guilty of database rights infringement. The High Court also found the man who purchased the databases, and the woman who subsequently marketed them for sale to others, guilty of database rights infringement. The employee, referred to as ‘Mr Wall’…
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Proposed settlement in lawsuit filed by Winn-Dixie employee against Purchasing Power LLC
Law360.com has an update to the Purchasing Power LLC lawsuit filed by Winn-Dixie employee Patrick Burrows that I’ve blogged about in the past. Burrows had sued Purchasing Power LLC after they had an insider data breach. Law360 reports that Purchasing Power has agreed to pay $430,000 to settle the complaint: In a settlement motion filed…
19 Derbyshire police workers caught abusing force files
Nineteen members of staff at Derbyshire police have breached data protection rules in the last three years by accessing information they were not allowed to see. One officer searched the force database to find information logged about his relationship with an illegal immigrant. He resigned before misconduct proceedings could take place Read more from the…
FL probation officer accused of milking records for tax refund fraud scheme
Elaine Silvestrini reports that Corey A. Coley Sr. a probation officer for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), was arrested Thursday and charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government. Investigators said he worked with at least two other people who filed tax returns claiming more than $1.6 million in fraudulent tax refunds. One…
Sparks details attack and data theft
From their press release: The company behind Sparks, the app that is designed to help you connect with and meet new people nearby with whom you have shared interests, and which was first presented at SXSW in 2012, has given details of an attempted Denial of Service attack allegedly undertaken by an employee of their…
EE: Former Police Official Found Guilty of Leaking Personal Data
Meanwhile, in Estonia: On Tuesday, Harju County Court found Alice Järvet, a former head of the analysis and planning bureau, guilty of leaking information from a police database. Järvet was fined 9,398 euros and was suspended from police work for three years, court spokeswoman Kristina Ots told uudised.err.ee. In January, the public prosecutor made a…