Nasdaq Told to Keep Cyber Attacks Under Wraps - CNBC

Nasdaq Told to Keep Cyber Attacks Under Wraps - CNBC

British Telecom faces legal issues after failing to leverage email compliance

A recent data loss incident may put British Telecom in the middle of an ongoing legal case in the UK involving a prior issue involving legal firm ACS:Law.

Authorities in the country are debating whether British Telecom violated the Data Protection Act when it recently leaked personal information of more than 500 customers as a result of an email mishap. An official with British Telecom has since confirmed that one of its attorneys sent a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing customers' personal information in an unsecured email.

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Report: Lawyer’s Email Slip-up Leads to Zyprexa Leak.

Eli Lilly was in settlement talks with prosecutors over the company’s marketing improprieties of its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa. According to the story, the settlement could end in Lilly’s paying more than $1 billion.

So how’d the NYT get the story? According to Portfolio.com, the source of the leak was a lawyer at Pepper Hamilton, who, believing he or she was sending a packet of confidential documents to co-counsel, Bradford Berenson at Sidley Austin, mistakenly e-mailed the documents to New York Times reporter Alex Berenson.

When Berenson began calling around for comment, reports Portfolio, and seemed to possess remarkably detailed inside infomration about the negotiations, Eli Lilly initially believed that the source of the leak had been the government.

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Leaked Freehills WA Graduate Recruitment Email Confirms Scheme Departure

Leaked Freehills WA Graduate Recruitment Email Confirms Scheme Departure

Highly Sensitive P2P Email Leaked From Gilbert + Tobin’s Peter Leonard

Highly Sensitive P2P Email Leaked From Gilbert + Tobin’s Peter Leonard

STOLEN E-MAIL MESS SEC LAUNCHES PROBE ON TROUBLED AMERICAN APPAREL

A batch of internal e-mails stolen from American Apparel on Christmas Eve has caught the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission, sources told The Post.
The SEC has launched a probe into electronic correspondence between executives at the trendy retailer, including an alleged Christmas Eve e-mail from American Apparel's new financial chief saying the company "almost went bankrupt," sources said.


The probe is a fresh distraction for CEO Dov Charney, who is now scrambling to raise cash to pay off impatient creditors amid a brutal shopping environment.

Earlier this month, Charney met with billionaire investor Ron Burkle, requesting new financing to prop up the cash-strapped retailer, sources said.


It couldn't immediately be determined whether Burkle has agreed to help Charney.
Also unclear is whether the SEC probe has reached the status of a formal investigation. An SEC spokesman declined to comment.


Separately, police are investigating a Christmas Eve break-in to American Apparel's computer systems, according to people close to the company.

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American Apparel Eyed By SEC Over “Almost Bankrupt” Emails

American Apparel “almost went bankrupt” before Xmas according to internal emails allegedly stolen from CEO Dov Charney’s porn-based advertising/clothing empire.

This email is AA CFO Adrian Kowalewski explaining to AA pr man Ryan Holiday why he has been unresponsive to press requests for comment:

>—-— Original Message —-—
>From: Adrian Kowalewski
>To: Ryan Holiday
>Cc: Candace Keene
>Sent: Wed Dec 24 13:33:04 2008
>Subject: Re: Solution
>
>
>1. We almost went bankrupt last Friday. I’m sorry but I was busy with that
>for the last several weeks.
>2. I’ve been sick and occupied with other company matters since Friday
>because we’re hardly out of the woods on #1.
>3. It’s the holiday.
>
>If you want to handle these questions and it’s only 15 minutes then please
>go ahead.

Naturally, the SEC is interested in why a company claiming a 10 percent Q4 sales gain is also on the verge of bankruptcy.

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Leaked E-mail Shows How GE Puts The Government To Work For GE

"The intersection between GE's interests and government action is clearer than ever," General Electric Vice Chairman John G. Rice wrote in an Aug. 19 e-mail to colleagues.

Rice was calling on his co-workers to join the General Electric Political Action Committee. "GEPAC is an important tool that enables GE employees to collectively help support candidates who share the values and goals of GE."

The full letter suggests that "share the values and goals of GE" really means "support policies that profit the company."

Steve Milloy, a pro-free market investor at the Free Enterprise Action Fund, obtained this e-mail and says it reveals General Electric for what it really is. "GE is lobbying to become the biggest rent seeker this country has ever seen," Milloy told this column. Rent seeking is using government legislation or regulation to generate private profits the free market wouldn't provide.

"On climate change," Rice wrote, "we were able to work closely with key authors of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives. If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses."

Read more at the Washington Examiner

Leaked Emails Reveal Profits of Anti-Piracy Cash Scheme

September 26, 2010 

Friday night the anti-piracy law firm ACS:Law accidentally published its entire email archive online, effectively revealing how the company managed to extract over a million dollars (£636,758.22) from alleged file-sharers since its operation started. On average, 30% of the victims who were targeted paid up, and this money was divided between the law firm, the copyright holder and the monitoring company.

Right before the weekend the notorious ACS:Law managed to expose backups of its entire website and email database to the outside world. Hundreds of people have meanwhile started to dissect the contents of the mails, and are sharing their findings in forums and in comments posted online.

Aside from a lot of personal stuff, regular passwords, PayPal details and private pictures, the emails also shed a whole new light on the effectiveness of the letters of claim that are being sent out to thousands of
BitTorrent users and how the recouped money was divided.

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