Things may have just gotten worse for Filipino voters whose details were hacked and exposed in a massive breach recently. Lara Tan reports: A website called wehaveyourdata.com claimed it carries the sensitive data — such as full name, complete address, and passport number — of at least 70 million registered Filipino voters. Last March, the website of…
Month: April 2016
UK: Kent police force fined for passing on personal details in domestic abuse case
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the following statement today: A police force has been fined after sensitive personal details of a woman who accused her partner of domestic abuse were passed to the suspect. Kent Police handed the solicitor the entire contents of the complainant’s mobile phone. The force has now been fined £80,000 for what an…
Structuring a Settlement After Asserting Class Members Did Not Suffer Any Concrete Injury
R. Locke Beatty of McGuireWoods writes: Frequently, a class action complaint will set forth an elaborate theory of why the defendant’s actions were negligent or wrongful, but fall short when trying to identify how that conduct has harmed the class members. This kind of complaint invites a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the…
Singapore slaps penalty on companies that failed to block data breaches
Jacob J reports: Singapore’s privacy watchdog has penalised 11 organisations for failing to protect the privacy of customers’ personal data. Karaoke chain K Box Entertainment Group was imposed with the heaviest fine of S$50,000 for failing to protect personal data of members on its platform under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Singapore’s data protection…
SpyEye Makers Get 24 Years in Prison
Brian Krebs reports: Two hackers convicted of making and selling the infamous SpyEye botnet creation kit were sentenced in Georgia today to a combined 24 years in prison for helping to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with malware and stealing millions from unsuspecting victims. Atlanta Judge Amy Totenberg handed down a sentence of nine years, six months for Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a 27-year-old Russian national…
EPIC Defends Right of PayTime Data Breach Victims to Bring Suit
EPIC.org is joining those who believe that victims of the PayTime data breach should not have had their lawsuit dismissed for lack of standing. EPIC has filed an amicus urging a federal appeals court to overturn a decision that limits the ability of data breach victims to sue. The plaintiffs sued a payroll company after their Social Security Numbers and…