Following up on the story reported last week, Renai LeMay and Alex Serpo of ZDNet Australia report that David Anthony McIntosh, the former CSG employee who crashed several government services at Berrimah Prison, Royal Darwin Hospital and the Supreme Court on May 5 last year and who deleted over 10,000 public servants from the system,…
Category: Unauthorized Access
Did The BBC break the law in its botnet report?
So…. did The BBC break the law when it bought and implemented a 22,000-strong botnet as part of its Click news reporting? Nick Farrell of IT Examiner reports that Sophos’ Graeme Cluely suggests that they did because the UK Computer Misuse Act makes it an offense in the United Kingdom to access another person’s computer,…
Sprint: Employee Stole Customer Data (updated)
Brian Krebs of Security Fix reports that Sprint sent letters to several thousand customers to inform them that a former employee sold or otherwise provided their account data without permission between December 2008 and January 2009. Updated Apr. 1: Sprint’s notification (pdf) to the NH Attorney General is now available online.
T-Mobile case update: indicted men were not employees
As an update to the story here: A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office informs me that the 5 men who were indicted today were not employees of T-Mobile. They allegedly accessed and acquired the customer data via an authorization code that they obtained from the owner of a T-Mobile store. The owner of that…
GA: Clayton deputies’ personal information, files compromised
Megan Matteucci reports: Clayton County Sheriff Kem Kimbrough is investigating a security breach after some deputies’ personal information was taken from internal files. The records include Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, employee identification numbers and an inmate’s medical information. Some internal investigation files have also turned up missing. Kimbrough…
CRMC employee fired for unauthorized access to patient files
An employee of Catskill Regional Medical Center in Harris was fired because she looked at 431 patient files for which she did not have permission. “She was nosey,” said hospital President Steven Ruwoldt said Thursday. There was no malicious intent, he said of the woman, who worked in the medical records department. The files she…