Joe Davies reports: A school IT teacher was jailed for six years today after hacking his pupils’ phones to steal naked selfies of teenage girls and storing them on his computer. High school technology expert Richard Edmunds, 40, told pupils he could fix their broken devices but took their private nude picture when he took…
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River City Bank notifies customers after discovering insider wrongdoing
River City Bank had some explaining to do to customers. As described in their notification, a copy of which was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, the bank discovered a problem on September 29. An employee downloaded customer data to a personal storage drive and later sent it to a third party. The download…
Owner and Operator of India-Based Call Centers Sentenced To Prison for Scamming U.S. Victims Out Of Millions of Dollars
An Indian national was sentenced on November 30, 2020 to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating and funding India-based call centers that defrauded U.S. victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, aka Hitesh…
Speaking of CFAA cases involving employees: Linda Jean Pangelinan Palacios Sentenced for Unauthorized Access of a Protected Computer in Furtherance of Fraud
November 25 – Shawn N. Anderson, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Linda Jean Pangelinan Palacios, age 48, from Dededo, Guam, was sentenced in the United States District Court of Guam to five months imprisonment for Unauthorized Access of a Protected Computer in Furtherance of…
ZA: Absa accuses employee of leaking customer data
Admire Moyo reports that Absa, one of the country’s largest banks, has disclosed a data breach that resulted in customer data being shared with external parties> In a statement to ITWeb, the bank says: “Absa advises that an employee has unlawfully made selected customer data available to a small number of external parties. The leaked…
Indiana justices agree to hear hospital records suit stemming from insider snooping case
Attempts to hold an entity liable for the wrongdoing of an employee has produced mixed results in the courts. Here’s a case in Indiana like that, below. As seen on The Indiana Lawyer: Justices last week granted transfer in the case of Community Health Network, Inc. v. Heather McKenzie, et al., 20S-CT-648. Heather McKenzie’s medical records…