Lee Boyce reports: Travellers who have bought currency at Tesco in the past may have had their details leaked, This is Money can exclusively reveal. The service is run by currency giant Travelex for orders made over the telephone and online. It confirmed 17,000 Tesco Travel Money customers have had personal information stolen, including full…
Month: March 2018
Colorado Legislature Signals That It May Create More Stringent Data Destruction Regulations and Tighten Breach Reporting Requirements
Sammantha Tillotson and Casie Collignon of BakerHostetler write: In January 2018, Colorado legislators sponsored a bill that, if passed, will change the state’s existing data breach reporting laws in important ways. A House Committee Report detailing the current version of the bill can be found here. The bill would create a new statute, C.R.S. §…
The Standing Struggle in Data Breach Litigation Continues
Dena Castricone of Murtha Cullina writes: Two courts. Two days. Two different results. On March 7, on remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a federal district court judge in Minnesota granted a motion to dismiss a consumer class action suit involving a 2014 data breach affecting over 1,000 grocery stores. …
Owner says North Battleford store receiving private medical records via fax
If you harbored any hope that we might be done with breaches due to misdirected faxes, I hate to disillusion you, but Meaghan Craig and Thomas Piller report yet another example in Canada: The Saskatchewan Health Authority is looking into instances where confidential medical records were allegedly faxed to a computer store in North Battleford….
Centennial not pressing charges against student hackers
Teresa Carson reports: The Centennial School District has not pressed charges against two unnamed students who hacked into the districts computers in January and got access to the personal information of “a couple of hundred” students and former students. Gresham Police officer Ben Costigan said the district declined to press charges and handled the matter…
Personal data of 3,000 South Carolina college scholarship recipients exposed for nearly a year
Andy Shain reports: About 3,000 South Carolina college scholarship recipients had their personal information exposed online for nearly a year, state regulators revealed Monday. Letters notifying affected Palmetto Fellows scholarship awardees were mailed Sunday, the S.C. Commission on Higher Education said. Read more on Post and Courier.