Takashi Nakamichi and Takako Taniguchi report: Japan’s Financial Services Agency is set to order Nomura Holdings Inc. to submit a report on how client information was leaked to a rival firm, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The regulator has asked Nippon Institutional Securities Co., the company that received the information from a Nomura employee, to provide…
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Camrose medical clinic employee penalized after sharing health files: privacy commissioner
Alex Antoneshyn reports: A Camrose medical clinic employee has been fined and given 180 hours of community service after improperly accessing health records of friends and others. According to the office of the privacy commissioner, Olivia Franc accessed the files at the Smith Clinic where she worked. Her employer reported the privacy breach in June…
Miami high schooler charged with cyberattacks that stopped online learning
Kevin Collier reports: Police have arrested a Florida high school student for alleged cyberattacks that rendered the Miami-Dade school district’s remote learning platform almost impossible to use. The student, an unnamed 16-year-old junior at the South Miami Senior High School, admitted to attacking the school’s My School Online platform, which is designed to let students attend…
Cisco engineer resigns then nukes 16k WebEx accounts, 456 VMs
Sergiu Gatlan reports: A former Cisco employee pleaded guilty to accessing the company’s cloud infrastructure in 2018, five months after resigning, to deploy code that led to the shut down of more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts and the deletion of 456 virtual machines. According to a plea agreement filed on July 30, 2020, 30-year-old…
IL Ex-Nursing Home Employee Used Patient’s ID To Pay Bills: Police
Lorraine Swanson reports: A Franklin Park woman is accused of stealing the identities of dozens of mostly elderly people. Anna Zur, 39, was arrested on Wednesday after a year-long investigation, where she was charged with felony counts of wire fraud and continuing a financial crimes enterprise, police said. When a daughter noticed fraudulent charges in…
Russian arrested for trying to recruit an insider and hack a Nevada company
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Department of Justice announced charges today against a Russian citizen who traveled to the US in order to recruit and convince an employee of a Nevada company to install malware on their employer’s network in exchange for $1,000,000. According to court documents unsealed today, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian, was identified…