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Employee of Akamai Technologies charged with wire fraud in spying sting

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Dissent

Another reminder about insiders, even though in this case, no confidential data was actually compromised because a would-be spy delivered the information to an undercover federal agent. From the press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts, a case first reported by Elizabeth Heichler on Computerworld: An employee of a high technology company headquartered…

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Former Employee of Fannie Mae Contractor Convicted of Attempting to Destroy Fannie Mae Computer Data

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Dissent

Ah, the risks of disgruntled terminated employees. A federal jury convicted computer programmer Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, age 36, of Montgomery County, Maryland, yesterday of computer intrusion arising from the transmission of malicious script to Fannie Mae’s computer servers. The verdict was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and…

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CA: Former Has-Camino Travel Agency employee accused of theft of computers, customer info

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Dissent

A husband and wife from South Pasadena have been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a travel agency where the woman formerly worked and stealing computers and people’s personal information, authorities said Friday. Maureen Hizon, 35, is also being investigated on suspicion of embezzling about $100,000 from the Has-Camino Travel Agency, where she had worked…

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FL: Ex-Waiter Accused Of Skimming Credit Cards

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Dissent

Carey Codd reports: A former waiter at a Southwest Ranches restaurant is accused of stealing the credit card numbers of more than two dozen customers. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Cristobal Chavez, 29, stole the credit card numbers by copying them with a device called a skimmer while working at the Romeus Cuban Restaurant….

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FL: Ex-employee accused of hacking into loan company’s computers, stealing data

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Dissent

News-Press.com reports: A former employee of Home Lynx Home Loans on College Parkway is accused of hacking into the company’s computer system and stealing confidential customer information, potential customer lists and marketing material. The former employee, whose name was not available in the sheriff’s report, was terminated in June. The owner of the company told…

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More on the Johns Hopkins Hospital-related indictments

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Dissent

Yesterday, when indictments were announced in an ID theft case involving a former employee of Johns Hopkins Hospital, I contacted the hospital to ask whether this was an incident that we had previous knowledge about in the media or blogosphere or if it was news to us. A spokesperson for the hospital just emailed me the…

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