Graeme Burton reports: Morrisons has told the Supreme Court in London that it should not be held either directly or vicariously liable for the 2014 payroll data leak of almost 100,000 employees. The leak was traced to its senior IT internal auditor Andrew Skelton, who held a grudge against the company following a disciplinary hearing over the…
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Two former Twitter employees and a Saudi national charged in plot to spy on users for Saudi government
From the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California: SAN FRANCISCO –Ali Alzabarah, Ahmad Abouammo, and Ahmed Almutairi, a/k/a Ahmed Aljbreen, were charged for their respective roles in fraudulently accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users and providing that information to officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced United States…
Trend Micro employee sold criminals data that fueled targeted scams
Gabriel E. Hall reports: A new security incident was discovered by one of the most prominent anti-virus makers – Trend Micro. According to an official blog post that was published by the firm on Tuesday,[1] November 5, one of its employees accessed customer information database and harvested data, which later was sold to tech support scammers…
Steyer staffer resigns after downloading Kamala Harris info in data breach
Maura Barrett, Jordan Jackson and Deepa Shivaram report: A staff member for Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer used access he had previously been granted while working for the South Carolina Democratic Party to download data about rival Kamala Harris’ campaign, state party officials said Monday. The South Carolina Post & Courier was the first to report the breach….
Sberbank’s confessed data thief is transferred from jail to house arrest
Meduza reports: The Volgograd Regional Court has transferred Anton Buturlakin — the “National Collection Service” employee charged with stealing Sberbank clients’ personal data — from a pretrial detention center to house arrest, according to the news agency Interfax. Read more on Meduza.
The Guidance Center notifies 1,235 patients after discovering insider wrongdoing
What havoc and costs a rogue insider/employee can cause. Here’s another example — this one from a new disclosure by external counsel for The Guidance Center in Long Beach, California. The Guidance Center (TGC) provides comprehensive mental health treatment to disadvantaged youth and their families. In their lawyer’s words: In late March of 2019, TGC…