Michelle Millhollon reports: A new report alleges that Murphy Painter used his position as the state’s alcohol and tobacco control commissioner to illegally obtain information on judges, the governor’s staff, a former LSU quarterback, U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s wife and others more than 1,000 times over five years. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar…
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Baton Rouge man gets seven years for ID theft
A follow-up to a breach reported back in August. Bill Lodge reports that Alton K. Davis has been sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing the identities of at least 30 current or retired Baton Rouge police officers. Davis said he did not know the name of the man from whom he purchased the…
Winamp forums attacked, accounts and email addresses exposed
Samuel Gibbs reports: Hackers have broken through security protecting the Winamp forum database, compromising the user forums, exposing accounts and email addresses in the process. In a post on the company’s forum, Winamp’s General Manager, Geno Yoham, explained that an attack was quickly detected and isolated to the Winamp forum database, protecting the rest of…
AA employee accused of stealing credit card numbers
A former American Airlines employee at Mineta San Jose International Airport is facing 66 felony charges for allegedly stealing and using customer credit card numbers. Prosecutors claim Micheline Johnson, 49, of Concord, skimmed customers’ credit card numbers for several years while she worked as a customer service agent. They say she used those numbers on…
(follow-up) ME: Little found by police on June data breach
Jamison Cocklin reports: For now, it seems the data breach that occurred last spring when two of the University of Maine’s computer servers were infiltrated by hackers will have few repercussions on the more than 4,000 students affected. Officer Bill Mitchell, a computer forensics specialist who is leading the investigation for the University of Maine…
Web glitch allowed access to others’ data
Adam Jones reports: A glitch in a new online state program allowed people to retrieve personal identification data associated with vehicle registration without asking users to verify they had legal authorization to access the records. The online search tool was removed from the Alabama Motor Vehicle Division website last week after being on the Internet…