Tim Turner has a somewhat scathing – but seemingly appropriate – commentary on the use of “undertakings” by the Information Commissioner’s Office. It begins: The Information Commissioner has published the latest in a long line of undertakings, this time involving Northumbria NHS Trust. As always, the ICO’s press release is very misleading about what has really happened. This…
Category: Breaches
Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day
David Kravets reports: A Southern California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her mobile phone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for wire-transfer service Intermex, claims in a…
Two Men Who Breached Photobucket.com Indicted and Arrested on Conspiracy and Fraud Related Charges
Two men have been arrested after breaching the computer services of Colorado based Photobucket, a company that operates an image and video hosting website. Brandon Bourret, 39, of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, of Sunnyvale, California, were arrested on Friday, May 8. According to the indictment, beginning on July 12, 2012 and continuing…
Extortion Website Operator Casey Meyering Pleads No Contest
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced today that cyber exploitation website operator, Casey E. Meyering, has pled no contest to one count of extortion, three counts of attempted extortion, and one count of conspiracy. He is expected to be sentenced on June 8, 2015. Meyering operated WinByState.com, a cyber exploitation website on which intimate images…