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Ex-Rite Aid official losesbid for acquittal, new trial
HARRISBURG -- A former Rite Aid Corp. executive convicted of 10 criminal offenses lost his bid Thursday for acquittal on five counts as well as his request for a new trial on the other charges.
U.S. District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo issued a 51-page ruling that denied all post-trial motions by Franklin C. Brown, the pharmacy chain's former chief counsel and board vice chairman.
As a result of the accounting scandal at Rite Aid, it had to retroactively lower net earnings in July 2000 by $1.6 billion, causing its stock price to plummet. But last month the company posted a profit for the fiscal year ending in February, the first profitable year since fiscal 1997.
Hackers access serverat University of California
SAN DIEGO -- More than 380,000 students, alumni, applicants and employees of University of California, San Diego, were at risk for identity theft after hackers accessed a university server containing names, driver's license and Social Security numbers.
There was no evidence hackers stole personal information, but under state law the university was required to notify those affected that security had been breached, school officials said Thursday.
An unauthorized user broke into four computers in the Business and Financial Services Department and stored DVDs on one of the computers that had been breached.
Associated Press