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• Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer

  A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.

• US State Dept. worker sentenced for passport snooping

  An employee of the U.S. Department of State was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 125 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

• Microsoft settles employee spying case

  Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a former employee that it once charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract.

• T-Mobile UK employees sold customer data

  Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who work for the competition, T-Mobile and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday.

• Eighth person charged with passport snooping

  An eighth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing numerous electronic passport files that are supposed to be confidential, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

• Insider at Cal Water steals $9M and runs

  On the night of April 27, 2009, hours after he had resigned from his job as an auditor at the California Water Services Company, Abdirahman Ismail Abdi used his still active electronic key card to get into the secured facilities where he used to work.

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  Ex-federal IT worker charged in alleged ID theft scam

  A former IT analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and his brother were arrested Friday on charges that they took out loans using stolen information, including sensitive information belonging to federal employees at the bank.

• In poor economy, IT pros could turn to e-crime

  Enterprises increasingly feel their employees will be more willing to steal data or sell insider knowledge due to the poor economy, according to an annual security survey conducted by KPMG.