Ben Protess and Peter Eavis report: A former Goldman Sachs banker suspected of taking confidential documents from a source inside the government has agreed to plead guilty, a rare criminal action on Wall Street, where Goldman itself is facing an array of regulatory penalties over the leak. The banker and his source, who at the time of…
OAIC accepts TeleChoice’s response to shipping container data breach
Corinne Reichart reports: TeleChoice has had an enforceable undertaking accepted by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), promising to review its data security practices after the mobile services reseller’s customer information was found in a shipping container on publicly accessible land. The enforceable undertaking [PDF] will see TeleChoice, which resells Telstra’s 3G network, provide its…
CIA head ‘outraged,’ ‘dismayed’ by email hack
Julian Hattem reports that CIA Director is outraged over the hack of his personal AOL account, but also upset about how the media portrayed things. Since this blog was one of many who raised the question as to whether he was improperly storing data that should not have been in his personal account, I thought…
Target Court Upholds Attorney-Client Privilege in Cyber Investigations
Stuart Altman and Michelle Kisloff write: In a decision issued late last Friday, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota rejected an effort by class action Plaintiffs to access materials created in the course of Target’s investigation of its 2013 payment card breach that Target claimed were protected by the attorney-client privilege and…
UK: Thousands of Morrisons employees to sue bosses over huge data breach
It’s unusual to see a data breach lawsuit in the U.K., so this one will be one to watch. The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that approximately 2,000 employees are suing supermarket chain Morrisons over an insider data breach that involved the theft and posting online of the financial and personal details of 99,998 fellow employees by a…
Dark Side: The rise and fall of a suburban hacker
Matt Hrodey had an interesting piece on Daniel Placek of Darkode infamy. It begins: Daniel Placek was just old enough to buy a beer when the FBI knocked on the door to his parents’ house in Bayside, where he was living, and seized his computer. Placek, a 21-year-old self-taught computer programmer, confessed most everything to the…