Paul Woolverton reports: Retired Army Maj. Veronica Carter is furious with the USAA. She says the financial services company failed to warn her when an identity thief or thieves called three times over the past month to try to persuade a customer service representative to withdraw money from her account. On Oct. 6, someone made…
UK: Online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, fined £130,000 for selling customer details
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An online pharmacy that sold details of more than 20,000 customers to marketing companies has been fined £130,000. Pharmacy 2U offered the customer names and addresses for sale through an online marketing list company. Companies that bought the details included a health supplements company that has been cautioned for misleading advertising…
Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison
Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison for Extortion, Money Laundering, and Obstruction Ex-DEA Agent Used Undercover Status to Pocket More than $700,000 in Bitcoin, Strike Movie Deal with Twentieth Century Fox SAN FRANCISCO –Carl M. Force was sentenced to 78 months in prison today for extortion, money laundering, and obstruction…
Anonymous hacktivist at center of leaked-secrets campaign speaks in person for the first time about July’s fatal RCMP shooting of a protester
Adrian Humphreys got the interview, and you can read it on National Post. Here’s a snippet: Procastin8r won’t talk about the source of those documents, especially on the record, but he agrees the operation has many different elements, some more successful than others. It makes this operation unique within Anonymous and, he said, it…
NZ: Students get porn message after high school’s email hacked
Stuff reports: Student emails have been suspended at Mt Albert Grammar after a security breach led to porn being sent to every student. An official message was sent to parents on Monday night apologising for any offence caused. Principal Dale Burden said they believed the culprit was most likely to be a student at the…
U.S. judge dismisses Uber driver lawsuit over data breach
Dan Levine reports: A U.S. judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit filed by an Uber driver against the ride service over a data breach disclosed by the company, according to a ruling on Monday. In February, Uber revealed that as many as 50,000 of its drivers’ names and license numbers had been improperly downloaded….