Jim Turner reports: An information security breach has been reported involving employee and student records at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville. […] According to the state Department of Education, the breach included more than 3,000 employee records and approximately 76,000 Northwest College student records containing personal identification information; and approximately 200,000 records with information…
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How Zappos’ User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked
Eric Goldman writes: In January, Zappos (part of $AMZN) announced a massive data security breach affecting 24 million consumers. As typically happens in these situations, plaintiffs’ class action lawyers swarmed over Zappos for the breach, filing dozens of lawsuits. Zappos tried to send the lawsuits to arbitration based on an arbitration clause in its user agreement. Recently,…
Feds arrests dozens in ID theft-tax fraud takedown in South Florida
How big a problem is ID theft/tax refund fraud? Well, the government says it’s to the tune of $5.2 billion. In human terms, here’s some interesting stats: Among major U.S. cities with the most fraud-related tax filings: Tampa (88,724 returns, with refunds of $468,382,079); Miami (74,496 returns, with refunds of $280,509,449) and Atlanta (29,787 returns,…
Consumer irritation over TD Bank breach about to mushroom? (update3)
More media coverage of a breach I commented on yesterday. Today Lindsay Tice of BDN Maine adds some additional details to earlier reports about a breach that occurred March 30 but wasn’t disclosed recently: The security breach occurred in March when two backup tapes from a computer server were shipped from one TD Bank location to another….
Millions of PlaySpan user IDs and passwords leaked online
Craig Chapple reports: World of Tanks, Guild Wars and Eve Online players hit by huge security breach Hackers have breached and leaked the personal information of millions of PlaySpan Marketplace users online. Private details compromised included user IDs, email addresses and encrypted passwords. In a statement to Develop, a PlaySpan spokesperson insisted however that there…
Industry piles on to support Wyndham’s motion to dismiss FTC complaint
This might be a good time to follow up on my previous coverage of the FTC complaint against Wyndham, and Wyndham’s motion to dismiss. As I noted previously, this is the first time that the FTC has faced an actual legal challenge to its authority to bring an action over data security. Since my last…