Jessica Mazzola reports: An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal authorities said. Anchi Hou, 61, a retired employee of DuPont, was charged was theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying and stealing the files from…
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Former Allegro worker accused of inserting ‘time bomb’ in company network
Craig S. Semon reports: A Shrewsbury man is accused of hacking into the main computer network of his former employer, Allegro MicroSystems, and uploading and inserting malicious computer programming code. Nimesh Patel, of 1 Ptarmigan Drive, Shrewsbury, is charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespassing and conversion. Read more on The Telegram.
Tax information of some University of Louisville employees hacked
Chris Larson reports: Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees has been compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents. John Karman, university director of media relations, said Friday the university confirmed that 83 employees’ W-2 forms were downloaded or accessed without authorization…
Gamestop.com Investigating Possible Breach
Brian Krebs reports: Video game giant GameStop Corp. [NSYE: GME] says it is investigating reports that hackers may have siphoned credit card and customer data from its website — gamestop.com. The company acknowledged the investigation after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity. “GameStop recently received notification from a third party that it believed payment card data from cards…
Leak of diabetic patients’ data highlights risks of giving info to telemarketers
Personal and health information of 918,000 vulnerable seniors was exposed on the Internet for months by a software developer working on a project. No one would have even known about it if the leak hadn’t been found by a guy with “too much time on his hands.” Before you give your personal or health insurance…
Excellus case offers a glimpse into the dark web of private data
Steve Orr of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle has an interesting follow-up to the Excellus incident that was covered on this site in earlier posts. It seems plaintiff-members who are suing Excellus over the incident claim that their information was found up for sale on the dark web. But who’s selling it, and are the…