As a follow-up to the revelation that Google fired an employee, David Barksdale, for accessing user accounts and harassing minors, Gawker.com has posed four useful questions to Google: 1) Has everyone whose privacy was violated by Barksdale been notified? 2) Why weren’t Barksdale’s actions reported to the police? 3) What specific steps is Google taking…
Category: Breaches
A New Zealand MP is apparently an ID thief
Martin Kay, Ian Steward and Tracy Watkins report on a political scandal in New Zealand involving ACT MP David Garrett. Among the other concerns about his past, it turns out the MP is an identity thief, having used the identity of a dead baby to get a passport. He claims that he was inspired by…
Employee alleges Shaq hack invaded his privacy
Doug writes: NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is at the center of an explosive new lawsuit accusing him of computer hacking, destroying evidence and indicating that he attempted to frame an employee by planting child pornography on his computer, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively. EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Read The Shocking Lawsuit Shaq’s former employee Shawn Darling filed the suit for intentional…
Gawker: Google engineer breached minors’ privacy, accounts (updated)
Adrian Chen writes on Gawker: … A Google engineer spied on four underage teens for months before the company was notified of the abuses. David Barksdale, a 27-year-old former Google engineer, repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the company to access users’ accounts, violating the privacy…