Matt Mencarini reports: The hacker who compromised the Dixon Public Schools website, email accounts and Twitter account earlier this month was also able to access some student information. During the regular school board meeting Wednesday night, Superintendent Michael Juenger said the district sent a letter to parents letting them know about the additional compromised information,…
FL: Five Defendants Sentenced In Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud And Access Device Fraud Schemes
Alex Dontfred, 29, David Tilus, 27, Sherika Rowe, 20, Fritznel Etienne, 24, and Latonya Ware, 27, all of Lauderhill, were sentenced for their participation in a stolen identity tax refund scheme and an access device fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of over $137,000 in fraudulent tax refund claims and over $49,000 in unauthorized…
Ex-Microsoft employee charged with leaking trade secrets to blogger (update2)
Chris Peters reports: A former employee of Microsoft Corp is facing criminal charges after he allegedly passed trade secrets to a blogger in France, U.S. court documents showed. Russian national Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee in Lebanon and Russia, admitted to Microsoft investigators that he provided confidential company documents and information to the blogger, documents…
Australian charged with hacking US gaming network (updated)
Kristian Silva reports that a Queensland man accused of hacking a US-based video game company’s computer network has been charged after a joint investigation between local police and the FBI. But wait, there’s not much more that they can report, it seems: For privacy reasons police said they couldn’t release the name of the video game company…
Computer theft at Greenleaf Book Group
A janitor is suspected of being responsible for the theft of five desktop computers and laptops from the Austin, Texas office of Greenleaf Book Group (GBG). The theft was discovered on January 18. At least one of the computers held current and past customer and vendor information including names, email addresses, credit card information, and in…
Payroll processor hack affects at least two clients’ employees
The breach at payroll processor BenefitMall (formerly Compupay) that affected Kenerson Associates also affected the Tribeca Film Institute, according to this notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office and to affected employees. If anyone sees other notifications from other affected clients, please let me know and I’ll add them here.