Items tagged with Data Theft

by Brittany Goetting - Fri, Jun 09, 2017

Chinese Authorities Arrest 20 Apple Contractors For Selling Customer Data

Is your Apple ID and other data safe? Chinese authorities recently arrested twenty-two people accused of selling the personal data of Apple customers. It is currently unclear how many customers have been affected. Police officers from the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian arrested the suspects... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Mon, Nov 10, 2014

US Postal Service Suffers Massive Data Breach, Over 800K Employees And Customers Exposed

Most of the time, when we hear about data breaches, it's because companies have either been compromised or failed to properly protect data. This time around, however, it's the United Postal Service in the limelight. Data on as many as 800,000 employees may have been stolen along with data on customers who called the... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Jul 19, 2011

Onetime Reddit Engineer Arrested For Data Theft

Programmer/activist Aaron Swartz has been arrested for data theft in connection with an incident that occurred at MIT in late 2010. Swartz is accused of downloading nearly five million documents from JSTOR, an online, non-profit academic journal archive system. The particulars are as follows: Swartz, who has a history as a political advocate... Read more...

by Shawn Oliver - Sat, Jan 31, 2009

Study Finds $1 Trillion At Risk From Data Theft

Considering the explosion of layoffs announced in recent weeks, companies would do well to seriously be on guard against data theft. According to a survey that polled some 800 companies in eight countries, 42 percent of firms admitted that laid-off employees were the single largest threat to their data security.The survey, which was unsurprisingly... Read more...