Apart from an increase in hacks as more people work from home with less than high levels of security, there has been an increase in insider breaches. Emma Hatton reports: Recently-redundant employees are sharing their former companies’ data in an effort to find new work with their competitors, a security firm that investigates data breaches…
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Coinsquare Data Theft Flags Insider Threat Issue
CISO Mag reports: Coinsquare, a Canadian crypto exchange that enables its users to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies, confirmed that its customer information was stolen by an ex-employee last year. Cybercriminals laid their hands on this data and are now reportedly going to carry out SIM swapping attacks. According to Stacey Hoisak, Coinsquare’s general…
Health and Safety Executive secures court orders preventing IT worker distributing data
Aodhan O’Faolain reports: The HSE has secured High Court orders preventing an Information Technology worker distributing or communicating highly confidential and sensitive information about hospital patients. Mr Justice Tony O’Connor also granted orders restraining Niall Bradley, with an address at Carrigeen Hill, Conna, Co Cork, from leaving Ireland until he has complied with the order…
Leak at Desjardins: a mortgage broker buys a list of 5000 names
The following is a translation provided by Google: A Quebec mortgage broker paid $ 3,000 in cash to obtain a list of personal and confidential data belonging to approximately 5,000 people. This is what emerged from a hearing by the disciplinary committee of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec (OACIQ) during which Marc-Olivier…
Leesburg Woman Sentenced To 48 Months In Prison For Aggravated Identity Theft And Wire Fraud
There’s an update to an insider breach previously reported on this site. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida on May 19: Ocala, Florida – Senior U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Stacey Lavette Hendricks (49, Leesburg) to 48 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and wire…
ADT employee spied on customers for years through their security cameras, lawsuits claim
Ron Hurtibise reports: Hundreds of customers of ADT Security Services were spied on through security cameras installed inside and outside of their homes, two federal lawsuits filed Monday are claiming. ADT, headquartered in Boca Raton, “failed to provide rudimentary safeguards” to prevent an employee from gaining remote access to the customers’ cameras over a seven-year period,…