Sian Barton reports: Four people have been sentenced for their part in a scam which saw 100 pieces of data a week stolen from Axa Insurance between July and December in 2015. The City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED), which worked closely with Axa during the investigation, discovered that between 15 July…
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Ex-UBS Worker Guilty of Money Laundering in Data Theft Case, Sentenced to More Than Three Years
Mara Bernath and Hugo Miller report: A former UBS Group AG employee, who fled the country rather than face trial, was found guilty of money laundering by a Swiss court over allegations of the theft and sale of client data to German tax authorities. Rene S., as Bloomberg has identified him, was sentenced by a…
Member of Anonymous sentenced to 10 years’ prison over hospital DDoS
Nate Raymond reports that the Martin Gottesfeld has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and $443,000 in restitution for his DDoS attack on Boston Children’s Hospital and another facility in 2014. Gottesfeld had been convicted on August 1, and had shown no remorse for his actions. According to prosecutors, in late 2013,…
UK hacker “BestBuy” sentenced for Mirai botnet attack on Lonestar
Catalin Cimpanu does some great reporting on the sentencing of “BestBuy:” A UK court sentenced today a 30-year-old man to two years and eight months in prison for using a DDoS botnet to viciously attack and take down internet connectivity in Liberia in the fall of 2016. The man is 30-year-old Daniel Kaye, also known…
NJ: Former Chilton Medical Center employee sentenced on Computer Criminal Theft charges
There’s a follow-up to an insider-wrongdoing case previously reported on this site as affecting 4,600 patients of Chilton Medical Center. The following press release appeared October 26: Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, and Chief Brian C. Spring of the Pequannock Township Police Department announce the sentencing of Sergiu Jitcu, age 39, of Saddle Brook,…
Man who targeted Georgia Tech employees through phishing scheme sentenced
J. D. Capelouto reports: A Nigerian man was sentenced to five years and 11 months in prison on Monday for his role in an online scam that accessed the employee bank accounts of several colleges and universities, including some at Georgia Tech, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Olayinka Olaniyi, 34, was part of a “phishing” scheme that…