Lisa Vaas reports: An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a former colleague’s login, steamrolled through his former employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and torched 23 servers. […] As the Mirror reported during Needham’s January trial, the IT worker was sacked after a month of…
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NZ: Privacy Bill avoids notification fatigue
Tim Murphy reports: MPs have revised privacy legislation to avoid a risk of ‘notification fatigue’ in which holders of data would be forced to advise the public of even minor data breaches. Parliament’s justice select committee has raised the threshold in the Privacy Bill for when mandatory notifications to the Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals would…
Tesla sues former staff for data theft
Reuters reports: Tesla filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a former engineer at the company, claiming he copied the source code for its Autopilot technology before joining a Chinese self-driving car startup in January. The engineer, Guangzhi Cao, copied more than 300,000 files related to Autopilot source code as he prepared to join China’s Xiaopeng…
Ca: Shredding company denies responsibility for incident involving Grand Villa Casino cards
Aaron Hinks reports an update to an incident that does not appear to have been covered on this blog. So why am I including the update? Well, partly because it sounds like something did happen that left personal information unshredded, but also because it sounds like the earlier reporting may have impugned a firm’s reputation and…
HIV data leak: Mikhy Farrera Brochez pleads not guilty in US court
Chris Kenning reports the latest development in a case this site has been following since January (search “Brochez” for other coverage). Mikhy Farrera Brochez on Tuesday (Mar 19) pleaded not guilty in a US federal court in Kentucky to charges related to stolen identification documents from Singapore’s HIV registry, according to his lawyer Jay Oakley. The American, who is…
Data breaches result in CEO pay rises, study shows
Stop the world. I want to get off. Mark Sutton reports: Bosses are more likely to receive a pay rise after their firm suffers a cybersecurity breach, according to a study by the UK’s Warwick Business School. Researchers at Warwick Business School found that media reports of a cyber-attack led to a stock market “shock”…