From the FTC Ms. Dana Rosenfeld Kelley Drye Washington Harbour, Suite 400 3050 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20007 Dear Ms. Rosenfeld: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC 20580 November 12, 2014 As you know, staff in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection has conducted an investigation into possible violations of…
Month: November 2014
Coca-Cola sued over stolen laptops breach
Law360 reports that Coca-Cola was hit with a putative class action in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday over the stolen-and-recovered laptops breach disclosed in January. I’m not finding the complaint in PACER yet. Law360 may have it, but a subscription is required.
Chinese hack U.S. weather systems, satellite network
Mary Pat Flaherty, Jason Samenow and Lisa Rein Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning, aviation, shipping and scores of other crucial uses, officials said. The intrusion occurred in late September but officials gave no indication that they had a problem until Oct. 20,…
USIS parent ordered to turn over security data by House committee Democrats
Well, I’m not sure why their headline says “ordered,” when it’s still an “ask,” but Jill R. Aitoro reports: The parent company and private equity owner of U.S. Investigations Services LLC is being asked by a congressional committee to turn over a laundry list of information about the security of USIS’s computer networks. The Nov. 12 letter…
FTC Alleges Debt Brokers Illegally Exposed Personal Information of Tens of Thousands of Consumers on the Internet
Here’s the FTC’s press release on an enforcement action I had noted on this blog when it originally reported by Courthouse News: At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has ordered two debt sellers that posted the sensitive personal information of more than 70,000 consumers online to notify the consumers and…
HSBC Turkey says credit card information of 2.7 mln customers stolen
Let’s treating this as breaking news, because I expect Reuters will add details to this report later: HSBC Turkey said on Wednesday cyber criminals had stolen credit card information of 2.7 million of its customers in Turkey and that additional security measures to monitor transactions had been put in place. HSBC Turkey said in a statement…