Today, the FBI would like to provide an update on the status of our investigation into the cyber attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). In late November, SPE confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that destroyed systems and stole large quantities of personal and commercial data. A group calling itself the…
UK: Huge data leak sees personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents published online
Fiona Parker reports: A massive blunder has seen the sensitive personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents – including address, sexuality and rent accounts – leaked online. Bungling council officers have also revealed the age and housing benefit entitlement of Hackney Homes tenants and leaseholders in the botched Freedom of Information request, which was inadvertently published…
Elmore prison clerk sentenced in massive identity theft
Rick Harmon reports: Sasha Webb, a medical records clerk at an Alabama Department of Corrections facility in Elmore County, was sentenced Thursday to serve almost six years in federal prison for her involvement in a stolen-identity, tax-fraud scheme. She was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following her prison sentence and to…
UK: Caerphilly County Borough Council signs undertaking after covertly surveilling employee out on sick leave
A council that ordered covert surveillance on a sick employee must review its approach after an Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) investigation. The ICO found the Council breached the Data Protection Act when it ordered the surveillance of an employee suspected of fraudulently claiming to be sick. From the undertaking, this summary of what happened: The…
UK: PC Katie Murray jailed for leaking Cregan and drugs info to sister and ex-lover
BBC reports: A PC who passed on intelligence about police killer Dale Cregan and planned drugs raids to her sister and drug-dealing former lover has been jailed. Katie Murray, 30, of Dunkirk Street in Droylsden, accessed police computers to get the confidential information. She was found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act and conspiracy…
Chinese Criminals Blamed for Record Japan Bank Cybertheft
Monami Yui and Shingo Kawamoto report: Japanese savers keeping their money in banks are falling prey to cybertheft in record numbers, and police say Chinese crime groups are increasingly to blame. Criminals stole 1.85 billion yen ($16 million) from accounts at lenders including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (8306) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (8316) in the six months ended…