Sean Gallagher reports: Reeling from the bad press associated with an ongoing parade of data breaches caused by criminal infiltration of their payment systems, representatives of six retail industry associations signed a joint open letter that pushes back against a vocal critic of retailers’ cyber-security practices—credit union associations. In the letter addressed to the presidents of…
Chinese engineer to plead guilty in theft of GE Healthcare trade secrets
Bruce Vielmetti reports: A Chinese engineer charged with stealing trade secrets and confidential information from a GE Healthcare subsidiary in Waukesha has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Jun Xie, 41, will plead guilty to one count of stealing trade secrets, according to federal court records. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years…
NC: Some Granville school system employees hit by security breach
Danielle Hairston reports: Granville County Schools wants to protect employees’ identities after a security breach last week. The district discovered a check worth $15,880 in employees’ May retirement deductions was fraudulently altered and cashed. According to the reports filed with the Attorney General’s Office, the district sent five checks to ING in June. Along with…
Another Defendant Sentenced In Identity Theft Fraud Scheme Involving Personal Identifying Information From AT&T Customer Files
Tracy Delva, 22, of Deerfield Beach, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $27,441 in restitution. Delva previously pled guilty to one count of access device fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,…
PA: Data Security Breach at Lewisburg Area School District
Nikki Krize reports: Lewisburg Area School District officials discovered this week that someone got into a data file with all that private information about students. Buffalo Valley Regional Police say there is a suspect and he is a student in the Lewisburg Area School District. District officials would not confirm if the student has been…
Three sentenced in fraudulent Mississippi driver’s license case
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this blog: Yolanda Jean Perkins, 48, of Laurel, a former driver’s license examiner for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety; Lorena Gomez, 33, of Laurel; and Elmer Enrique Martinez-Velasquez a/k/a Jose Martell Rivera, 32, an illegal alien from Mexico residing in Albertville, Alabama, were sentenced in…