Margot Roosevelt reports: Last year, according to the Mount Olympus Mortgage Co. in Irvine, several of its officers secretly downloaded confidential information on hundreds of loan customers and transferred five gigabytes of data to a competitor. The loan officers then deleted files and emails on their computers and went to work for that rival, Chicago-based lender Guaranteed…
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PA: Benecard employees say data breach made them victims of tax refund fraud
Barbara Miller reports: A class action lawsuit filed Feb. 26 claims prescription benefit company Benecard Services Inc., which has an office in Mechanicsburg, failed to notify former employees and customers of a recent data breach. The suit, filed in U.S. Middle District Court by Harrisburg attorney Benjamin Andreozzi, is on behalf of five former employees…
FORK ME! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers
Kieren McCarthy reports: Uber has subpoenaed GitHub to unmask netizens suspected of hacking its database of taxi drivers. The ride-booking app maker is trying to force GitHub [PDF] to hand over the IP addresses of anyone who visited a particular gist post between March and September last year. That gist is believed to have contained a login…
All in the family: Three Milwaukee sisters face 90 felony charges for filing fraudulent tax returns
Ashley Sears reports on a tax refund fraud scheme that included using the identity information of prisoners in the Mississippi prison system: Three sisters from the Milwaukee area are facing a total of 90 felony charges for filing fraudulent income tax returns following a two-year investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue’s (DOR) Criminal Investigation…
TX: Socorro Independent School District student charged with breach of the district’s computer system
Ashleigh Rodriguez reports: The Socorro Independent School District spent $8,000 this weekend, cleaning up a number of Eastlake High computers. A student downloaded malware, or a malicious program to the school’s computer system. […] After spending the weekend checking 1,000 computers, they found out he had only infected 16. Reyna said he was attempting to…
AZ: Court clerk: Security breach affects hundreds of court cases
Raquel Hendrickson reports: “A severe dereliction of duty” is what Clerk of the Superior Court Amanda Stanford is calling a reported security breach that could impact hundreds of criminal cases in Pinal County. Stanford is alleging her predecessor, Chad Roche, gave the county attorney’s office access to files that had been sealed by the court….