Michael Tutton and Michael MacDonald report: The office of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil broke privacy laws when chief of staff Kirby McVicar publicly released sensitive medical information about a former cabinet minister, the province’s privacy commissioner says. McVicar resigned Nov. 24 after stating in several media interviews that Andrew Younger had a brain tumour…
MN: Former Dakota County Worker Pleads Guilty to Breaching Privacy of Lawmakers
File this under the “small breach, big harm” category, as the media got hold of the story, which created significant problems for the lawmakers involved. Thomas Berry, a former employee of the Dakota County Water Resources Department, pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge involving violating the privacy of two lawmakers. Berry admitted improperly accessing and…
DOJ Hacker Also Accessed Forensic Reports and State Department Emails
Joseph Cox reports: …. In a previous interview with Motherboard, the hacker who dumped details about 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees claimed he had also downloaded around 200GB of internal government files. A number of other hacked files have been obtained by Motherboard, and include apparent digital forensics reports from…
Departing Employee Taking Data from “Restricted” but Unsecured Folder Doesn’t Violate CFAA
Shawn E. Tuma writes: When an employer intends to keep a network folder restricted from employees, but fails to (1) objectively communicate this intention or (2) secure the folder from general access, an employee who accesses the folder and takes data from it does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), even if he does…
Iranian man pleads not guilty in bank fraud of South Mississippi customers
Robin Fitzgerald reports: An Iranian national whose cybercrime victims include three South Mississippi banks and thousands of its customers flew to New York after winning a lottery that allowed him to obtain a U.S. permanent resident visa, a federal agent’s affidavit said. Milad Rezaei Kalantari, 30, is suspected of operating websites known as carding forums,…
Ex-employee of Yahoo’s Forex broker YJFX stole clients’ data
Maria Nikolova of LeapRate reports that retail Forex broker YJFX, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation, recently reported that a former employee stole more than 180,000 pieces of information about YJFX clients. The information ranged from transactions details to names of the clients and their bank account data. The information taken by the former employee had reportedly been stored…