Ray W writes: Aller Media, the owner of Danish gossip magazine Se & Hor, was fined 10 million kroner [approximately $1.5 million] – and the magazine’s former managing editor, Kim Bretov, and former news editor, Lise Bondesen, were each given suspended jail sentences –on Thursday for illegally buying the credit card information of celebrities. Read…
Month: August 2016
NAIC Task Force Releases Revised Draft Insurance Data Security Model Law
John S. Pruitt, Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik and John Allen Zumpetta of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP write: On August 17, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) Cybersecurity (EX) Task Force (the Task Force) released for comment a revised draft Insurance Data Security Model Law (the Model Law). This Model Law purports to “establish exclusive standards…
U.S. fines big Nebraska bank over credit card, ID theft marketing
Jonathan Stempel reports: First National Bank of Omaha will pay $35.25 million of fines and refunds to settle charges by two U.S. regulators that it duped hundreds of thousands of customers into buying credit card and identity theft services they did not want, understand or receive. It also apologized to customers. Thursday’s settlements with the…
NYC students’ personal info left on street in careless breach
For your “Why is this still happening in 2016?” file: Just one day after New York State Education Department announced it has appointed its first Chief Privacy Officer, WABC reports: In a shocking breach of confidential information, names, addresses, even social security numbers for students and parents were found outside a Bronx school. Eyewitness News has learned…
Roman Seleznev Found Guilty on 38 Counts
I guess the jury didn’t buy the defense’s claim that the government had tampered with the evidence on Seleznev’s laptop. A federal jury yesterday convicted a Vladivostok, Russia, man of 38 counts related to his scheme to hack into point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers to the criminal underworld, announced Assistant Attorney…
St. Jude: Pacemaker hacking claims ‘absolutely untrue’
Matt Egan reports: St. Jude Medical rejected claims made by a famous short seller on Thursday that the company’s pacemakers and other lifesaving devices are vulnerable to cyber attacks. The allegations, made in a detailed 34-page report by Muddy Waters founder Carson Block, were enough to spook investors on Wall Street. St. Jude’s stock plummeted…