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Heritage Auction House Sues Christie’s and Collectrium Over Data Theft

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Dissent

Brian Boucher reports: Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has filed suit against Christie’s accusing the auction giant of harboring a large trove of sales data stolen by the operators of its Collectrium database. The suit alleges that Collectrium staffers used various accounts, one of them registered under the name of the silver-screen spy Jason Bourne, to pilfer data…

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CoStar Sues Longtime Competitor Xceligent, Alleging Data Theft

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Dissent

Peter Grant reports: CoStar Group Inc., one of the world’s largest commercial real-estate data companies, has taken direct aim at longtime competitor Xceligent with a lawsuit alleging Xceligent has been involved in “brazen and widespread theft” of its data and photos, according to legal papers filed Monday night. Read more on WSJ.

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CA: University student indicted for DDoS attacks on Bay area online chat service (updated)

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Dissent

SAN FRANCISCO – Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, a graduate student in computer science, has been indicted for transmitting a program, information, code, or command causing damage to a protected computer announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.  The indictment, filed December 1, 2016,…

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UK: Operation Vulcanalia targets users of netspoof website attack tool

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Dissent

From an NCA press release today: Twelve people have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency operation targeting customers of website crippling software which can cost as little as £4. Netspoof stresser was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) programme that disabled web servers and websites by flooding them with massive amounts of…

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Miami-Dade County, Florida, Man Charged With Conspiracy To Commit Health Care Fraud

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Dissent

Here’s a case of insurance info theft to fuel a fraud scheme: NEWARK, N.J. – A Florida man has been charged in connection with his role in establishing fake medical facilities in New Jersey and billing insurance companies for services that were never performed, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Eduardo Arango Chong, 21, of Hialeah,…

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CN: 201 people arrested in infringement of personal information case

Posted on October 9, 2016 by Dissent

CRI reports: Chinese police have arrested 201 suspects in an infringement of citizen’s personal information case, the Ministry of Public Security said Sunday. The case sprawled 25 provincial regions across China. […] Initial investigations showed nine gangs were involved. Each gang consisted of information sources together with three levels of agents. Personal information was sold…

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