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May 11, 2019 08:34 pm

Feds Nab Exec On Allegations He Hacked To Steal Info About School Lunches

"After a year-long investigation, a top California exec has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly hacking into a competitor's website and stealing their customer data in an effort to ruin their business," writes long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger. "There is an unusual twist, however: this isn't the high-stakes world of big tech or high finance, but American school lunches." The Register reports:Chief financial officer of Choicelunch, Keith Wesley Cosbey, 40, was collared last month over claims that he illegally grabbed details from competitor The LunchMaster on what precisely youngsters across the San Francisco Bay Area like to eat and are allergic to. He has been charged with unlawful computer access and fraud, and identity theft. If found guilty, Cosbey faces up to three years behind bars. According to the criminal complaint against him, filed in San Mateo County, Cosbey stole data on hundreds of students, and then sent it anonymously to the local government department that oversees the school lunch program in an apparent effort to undermine his competitor. The approach backfired, though, when the California Department of Education contacted The LunchMaster about the data leak, and the company searched its access logs, it is claimed. It apparently tracked the intrusion down to an IP address associated with Danville, California -- where Choicelunch is headquartered. The LunchMaster then contacted the FBI, the San Francisco Chronicle reported... The school lunch provider's CFO is now out on $125,000 bail, the article points out -- another reminder of the cutthroat competition for annual multi-million-dollar contracts with school districts. Previously the same school lunch provider had even tried suing that same competitor for "copyright infringement" over their web site and software -- even issuing DMCA notices. "The case landed in front of tech-savvy Judge William Alsup," reports the Register, "who made it plain he wasn't happy about people using copyright laws on web designs to tear down someone's online operation."

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