Jay Weaver reports: Caleb Fadet, who grew up in a working-class family in North Miami, seemed to be making all the right moves to get ahead in life. He graduated with a criminal justice degree from Florida A&M, volunteered as a tutor in the federal AmeriCorps program and earned a scholarship to pursue a vocational…
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FL: Broward sheriff’s employee and Palmetto General Hospital employee among those indicted in fraud case (updated)
Erika Pesantes reports: A Broward sheriff’s community service aide is part of a group accused of stealing people’s identities and filing fraudulent federal tax returns on their behalf to rake in cash. Celia Cromer, 42, who was assigned to the regional traffic unit as a breath-alcohol technician in sheriff’s DUI cases, has been indicted on…
High schooler allegedly hired third party to DDoS his school district
See? This is what happens when you don’t teach students how to hack. They have to hire someone. Lisa Vaas reports: A 17-year-old high school boy may face state and federal charges for allegedly having paid a third party to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that crippled the West Ada school district…
U.S. House panel issues subpoena to Fed over 2012 information leak
Michael Flaherty and Emily Stephenson of Reuters report: The chairman of a U.S. congressional committee on Thursday subpoenaed Federal Reserve documents and communications related to a 2012 leak of monetary policy information, ramping up his attack of the central bank’s handling of the case. Jeb Hensarling, a Republican of Texas who chairs the U.S. House…
Another day, another laptop stolen from a car?
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was recently mentioned on this site as one of the clients of a medical billing firm that had to notify clients that patient information had been stolen by a rogue employee. Less than one week later, UPMC had another situation to deal with, but it’s not one that made…
Hundreds of people who want to hire hackers just got outed
Kashmir Hill reports: In February, an Alabama woman named Terri went on a hacker-for-hire website called Hacker’s List, and posted a job she needed done. “I need to get information off an iPhone6, mainly texts (current and deleted if possible and the call log),” she wrote. “Or get into their email account … Thanks so…