Shaun Nichols reports: The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – which handles sensitive files on millions of government workers and was thoroughly ransacked by hackers – is withholding thousands of documents from Congress, which is probing the cyber-attack. This is according to members of the House Committee on Oversight, who took OPM to task…
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Ex-Cardinals Scouting Director to Plead Guilty to Hacking Houston Astros: Sources (UPDATED)
Brian Costa and Devlin Barrett are reporting that according to sources, Chris Correa, the former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals, is scheduled to plead guilty today in connection with an unauthorized breach of the Houston Astros computer network. Read more on WSJ. Update: The sources were right – he did plead guilty to five counts, as The…
Leader of $200M credit card fraud scheme sentenced
Tim Darragh reports: Tahir Lodhi led one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the U.S. Department of Justice, and Thursday was the day his bill came due. The Hicksville, N.Y. man was sentenced to more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud…
Personal info of 60 Ohioans in records given out
Randy Ludlow reports: A state agency mistakenly turned over the personal information and bank-account numbers of about 60 Ohioans to a pair of vendors, including one that sent the records to be copied by a third party. Officials of the MARCS emergency-communications system within the Department of Administrative Services didn’t notify people whose Social Security,…
MI: Farmington Hills mother admits stealing private personal records
Kevin Dietz has an update on an identity theft fraud case that I’ve noted previously on this site. Now Markitta Washington has admitted to stealing patient information as part of the tax refund fraud scheme. Washington, who according to court records took a job at two hospitals — the DMC’s Harper Hospital in Detroit and Henry Ford Hospital in…
LabMD and Wyndham Decisions Curtail FTC’s Data Privacy and Security Reach
Alan L. Friel and Gerald J. Ferguson of BakerHostetler provide their interpretation of recent rulings: Both the administrative law judge’s decision in LabMD and the Third Circuit’s recent decision in Wyndham, which we previously blogged about, put the FTC on notice that it cannot assume that in the wake of a security breach, allegedly inadequate data security will necessarily constitute…