Vallejo woman gets more than seven years for ID theft
According to the news portal Times-Herald News, Simone Aguilar, 45, of Vallejo, was sentenced Friday to seven years and three months in prison by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. for a scheme to buy vehicles using other people’s names, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
Aadhaar data leak: 210 govt websites expose private details
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has now closed all the 210 websites of the central and state government departments which showed address, mobile number and other private data of Aadhaar beneficiaries, The International Business Times reports.
Nigerian man sentenced to 7 years in prison for tax fraud
A Nigerian citizen has been sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for his part in a nationwide identity theft and IRS tax fraud scheme that cost thousands of dollars to Oregon and Washington taxpayers, the website News10 writes.
US Court Cuts TCS Fine From 940M to 420M dollars in Epic Lawsuit
A US court slashed the compensatory and punitive damages that major IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) must pay Epic Systems for a trade secret lawsuit by more than half, The EHR Intelligence writes. The Western District Court of Wisconsin issued an opinion that TCS should be ordered to pay $420 million of a $940 million fine as a result of the lawsuit filed by Epic in April of 2016.
Hack cost Equifax only 87.5M dollars — for now
During an earnings call detailing the Q3 2017 financial results, Equifax execs said the company incurred $87.5 million in expenses related to the massive data breach it suffered earlier in the year and which it publicly disclosed in September 2017, the Bleeping Computer reports.
Healthcare under observation of cybercriminals
For many years healthcare institutions remain one of the most attractive sources of personal information for criminals. Medical cards are valuable on the black market, as it can easily be converted into cash. In addition to the names, surnames and addresses of patients, health facilities accumulate social security numbers, IDs, payment information, and, of course, the results of various diagnostics and analysis.
Winhall woman found guilty of bank fraud, identity theft
A Winhall woman, who officials say was involved in obtaining $1.6 million in bogus loans at five financial institutions, including the Bank of Bennington, was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington on three felony charges on Tuesday afternoon, a news portal VTDigget.org reports.
Scots cyber crook caught selling hacked info
Cyber crook Kevin Forbes was caught red-handed as he tried to sell hacked info on 450,000 oil workers — to an FBI informant, The Scottish Sun writes. The devious recruitment firm boss thought he was about to rake in a £190,000 fortune in New York for the data he’d hacked from a rival company’s website.
Paradise Papers: these is the leak
The latest offshore data leak pries open the door on the wheeling and dealing of the super-rich and major corporations, The Suddeutsche Zeitung writes.
How to steal information from hotels
The travel industry has been always of great interest to cybercriminals. No wonder — the cause of that is fairly large volumes of personal and payment data processed by businesses, including those belonging to VIP visitors. Intruders aim at both individual hotels and hotel chains that operate with data of tens of thousands of people. More details you can find in our overview of the largest leaks in this industry in the first half of 2017.
