Nathaniel Popper suggests stolen consumer data is not as big a problem or threat as it may seem, and the impact on consumers is somewhat declining over time. Read his article in the New York Times: Stolen Consumer Data Is a Smaller Problem Than It Seems. While I agree with him that there’s been a lot…
Month: July 2015
Hacker steals Bitdefender customer log-in credentials, attempts blackmail
Lucian Constantin reports: A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus company confirmed the security breach but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, whose passwords…
PagerDuty hacked … and finally comes clean 21 days later. Cheers
Alexander J. Martin reports: Why not celebrate SysAdmin Day by worrying about a data breach at incident management peddler PagerDuty? An attacker managed to get into the company’s systems on 9 July, and a belated 21 days later the company did the decent thing and informed its customers about the incident. ‘Fessing up to the…
Lawsuit filed in Medical Informatics Engineering data breach (updated)
Sherry Slater reports: The ink was barely dry on patient notification letters when Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. was named the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that negligence contributed to the local company’s May data breach. James Young, a patient whose medical information was compromised, filed the paperwork Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne….
U.S. intel fears hundreds of secrets leaked in Hillary’s private emails
John Solomon and S. A. Miller report: The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday. The top…
Breach litigation standing — the bell tolls for Clapper
There have been a number of law firms blogging about the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in the Neiman Marcus lawsuit as a game-changer in data breach litigation. Here’s one commentary by Taylor Brooke Concannon and Peter Sloan of Husch Blackwell: For years, federal district courts have reliably dismissed data breach consumer class actions at the outset, citing the…