Alexander J. Martin reports: Amazon and GoDaddy have been dropped as defendants in an ongoing lawsuit over hosted data from have-an-affair site Ashley Madison – as the plaintiffs try and force offending websites to delete the data ahead of any future trial. Read more on The Register. It appears that the plaintiffs are now seeking…
Month: September 2015
Hatch, Wyden Announce Markup of Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Identity Theft and Tax Refund Fraud
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced the Committee will mark up an original bipartisan bill to curb identity theft and tax refund fraud on Wednesday, September 16, in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 10:00 a.m. “Protecting the private information of taxpayers at the Internal Revenue Service should be of highest…
AU: Vodafone ‘fesses up to hack of journalist’s phone, denies ‘improper behaviour’
Kelly Fiveash reports: The Australian division of mobile giant Vodafone has admitted that one of its employees illegally accessed the phone records of a journalist to try to uncover her sources, following publication of a negative story. However, Vodafone – which first investigated allegations of a privacy breach four years ago – has strongly denied…
Why does the FTC keep ignoring my inquiry?
On July 31, after reading a news story about a breach involving a school district, I emailed the FTC to ask for clarification on FACTA: I have searched and searched but cannot find a definitive answer to the following: Are k-12 public school districts covered by FACTA? Assume for purposes of my question that there…
NZ: Police file leak ‘could put lives at risk’
Radio New Zealand reports: Police say that sensitive, secret files have been mistakenly sent to a defence lawyer and have been widely circulated. A criminal lawyer who has seen the files said they contained details about informants, criminal activity and police surveillance that could put people at risk. The mistake occurred when a standard criminal…
Sutter Health reports breach involving billing documents
Cathy Locke reports: Sutter Health announced Friday that it is notifying 2,582 patients that personal information was included in electronic versions of billing documents that a former employee emailed to a personal account without authorization. For all but two of the affected patients, no Social Security numbers, financial information or driver’s license data were included,…