Creshika C. Wise, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Agent who impersonated a taxpayer in order to steal over $470,000, has pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated identity theft. According to U.S. Attorney John Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: Creshika Wise worked for the IRS from 2008 until the…
Swift Warns of New Hacker Attack on Bank After Bangladesh Heist
Trista Kelley reports: Swift, the inter-bank messaging system embroiled in one of the largest cyber heists in history, warned customers that hackers have struck again, attacking a commercial bank client that it didn’t name. The details of a second hack follow a cyber theft in February, when more than $80 million was stolen from Bangladesh’s account at…
CA: Kern County Superintendent of Schools investigating employee data breach
Justin Burton reports: Employees of Kern Superintendent of Schools have been alerted to a data breach at the organization, 23ABC News has learned. In a note sent to staff members on Monday, Superintendent Christine Lizardi Frazier said the group’s payroll department fell victim to a data phishing scam. A KCSOS spokesman told 23ABC the incident…
John McGuinness says HSE in “serious breach of data protection” as patient files stored in unlocked outhouses
MaryAnn Vaughan reports: A Kilkenny Dáil Deputy says the HSE locally has seriously breached Data Protection. John McGuinness says it was brought to his attention that there are boxes of patient and HSE workers’ files stored in unlocked outhouses at the site of their auxiliary hospital on Wolfe Tone Street in Kilkenny. Read more on…
Besa Mafia: Hitman For Hire Site Hacked, Data Dumped
RiskBased Security writes: News reports of websites being hacked and data being leaked has become an all too common occurrence. Most of the press focuses on popular or well known sites, rarely touching on leaks from sites that reside in the recesses of the “deep web” or “dark web”, accessible only by means such as…
Ca: North Bay nurse who snooped into 5,800 patients’ records gets four month suspension
May Warren reports that a North Bay nurse who snooped into more than 5,800 patients’ records yet escaped prosecution because of Crown prosecutor delays and mis-steps, has had her license suspended by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Melissa McLellan was the first person ever actually charged under the 2004 Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA),…