News4Jax reports: A woman who had access to customers’ personal identifying information while working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida in 2011 has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of aggravated identity theft. Laura Butler, 40, faces a maximum penalty of seven years in federal prison with a two-year mandatory minimum prison term. Butler…
Irish IVF industry slams donor disclosure proposals
Michael Cook reports: Proposed legislation in Ireland which would ban anonymous donation of eggs and sperm has come under fire from the IVF industry. In a hard-hitting op-ed in the Irish Times, Dr John Waterstone, vice president of the Irish Fertility Society, has called upon the Oireachtas (parliament) to scupper the assisted reproduction regulations of the…
How the HSBC whistleblower used the Internet to leak private bank information to the police
Stefano Pozzeban reports: Hervé Falciani, the French-Italian whistleblower who handed over information on 100,000 HSBC client accounts to French authorities in 2009, has published a detailed account on how the transfer of the data actually took place. The IT engineer has published a book, La Cassaforte degli Evasori, which tells his side of the story, writing how he…
@MarxistAttorney tweet suggests he’s been arrested (corrected and updated)
Update of March 19: “Attorney” informs DataBreaches.net that he was not arrested and was just taking a break. Original post: It appears that a young hacker who goes by the online handle of “Attorney” (@MarxistAttorney on Twitter) has been arrested. In a tweet tonight, he wrote: Well this is the end my friends, it was…
Hacker Admits Sabotaging Long Island Company
There’s a follow-up to a breach involving Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation first noted on this site in May, 2013. Thomas Bolger reports: A software programmer formerly from Smithtown has admitted to hacking into and sabotaging a Long Island-based company’s computer network in retaliation for being passed over for promotions three years ago. Michael Meneses…
Investigator Admits Guilt in Hiring of a Hacker
Matthew Goldstein reports: A private investigator who has done work for small New York City law firms that specialize in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Manhattan to one charge of conspiracy in hiring a hacker to help with his investigation. The guilty plea, by Eric Saldarriaga,…