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Contractor for USAO Southern District of Iowa Provided Sensitive, Non-Public Info on Criminal Investigations to a Friend; Informants Wound Up “Outed” Online

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Dissent

An Iowa woman pleaded guilty today for unlawfully using a former Department of Justice contractor’s government computer to access government records and to obtain sensitive, non-public law enforcement information, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. According to admissions made in connection with her guilty plea, Rachel Manna,…

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USDA Denies Data Breach at Payroll Facility

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Dissent

Mariam Baksh reports: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found “no evidence” of a data breach at a payroll processing center but is investigating, a spokesperson said in response to news reports to the contrary. Reuters first reported on Tuesday that the department’s National Finance Center, which runs a payroll system serving over 600,000 federal employees…

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Court grants injunction, restraining order against NEW Co-op

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Dissent

Elijah Decius reports: A federal District Court judge has granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction requested by Landus Cooperative in its lawsuit against NEW Cooperative of Fort Dodge. The lawsuit, filed two weeks ago by the Ames-based co-op, accuses disgruntled former Landus employees Jeff Headley and Brian Berns of conspiring and stealing protected…

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CEO who lied to thousands of patients by telling them they had less than six months to live in order to enroll them in hospice sentenced to prison

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Dissent

There are bad breaches, and then there are the ones where words like “despicable,” “evil,” “immoral,” “disgusting,” and “reprehensible” just seem too weak to express how decent people might feel. This case out of Texas is one of those.  Here is DOJ’s press release issued today: The CEO of a Texas-based group of hospice and…

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Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department investigates potential data security incident

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Dissent

Tiffany Bechtel reports: The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department has received notice that an unknown person has been claiming to have stolen data from TravelOK.com and related websites. Officials say once the department was made aware of the claims they immediately contacted the Oklahoma Cyber Command to launch an investigation into the incident. They also took…

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Court Denies Motion for Class Certification in Employee W-2 Data Breach Litigation

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Dissent

Joseph Lazzarotti and d Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: In recent years, there has been an uptick of W-2 phishing scams, and their consequences for an employer extend well beyond leaked data, including potential employee class action litigation.   Just last week, a federal court in Illinois rejected a motion for class certification in a data…

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