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…
Misfortune Cookie crumbles router security: ’12 MILLION+’ in hijack risk
John Leyden reports: Infosec biz Check Point says it has discovered a critical software vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack home and small business broadband routers across the web. The commandeered boxes can be used to launch attacks on PCs and gadgets within their local networks. More than 12 million low-end SOHO routers worldwide are…
KeyPoint suffers computer breach, potentially exposing thousands of federal workers
Drew Hansen reports that one of the companies that took on more background checks for the federal Office of Personnel Management after USIS‘s breach has had its own breach: Federal officials are saying the personal information of thousands of employees has been compromised by a computer breach at KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc., according to reports. The…