The AAP reports: A former West Australian detective has escaped a jail term for using the police computer system to access the details of more than a dozen women he fancied. John Lawrence Curran, 46, was given a seven-month suspended sentence and fined $1000 after pleading guilty in Perth Magistrates Court to 16 counts of…
Category: Breaches
Southwestern Bell sued for alleged DMV data grab
Joe Harris reports: Southwestern Bell is the latest in a series of class-action defendants accused of using misrepresentations to get confidential data from a Department of Motor Vehicles database “for commercial purposes.” The complaint against SW Bell is the third that Kansas City attorney Mitchell Burgess has filed for clients. The first, against the Source…
David Irving Speaks About Hack Attack
Thomas Francis reports: In a brief telephone conversation this afternoon, Nazi historian David Irving confirmed that his websites and private email account were attacked by hackers opposed to his writings of World War II. He told me that he’s been in contact with the FBI in hopes of bringing the hackers to justice. “We’re asking…
Ex-MI5 agent in memoirs battle sues newspaper for naming him
David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor report: A former MI5 secret agent is suing the London Evening Standard for revealing his name, his lawyers say, in an attempt to extend Britain’s privacy laws to cover the identity of intelligence officers. The agent is also threatening the Guardian with a high court injunction if the paper re-publishes…