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,…
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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…
KS: Salina businesses see high number of computer thefts
Last month I tweeted about a rash of burglaries where thieves were stealing computers from Salina, Kansas businesses. Samantha Anderson reports that there have been more burglaries since then: Two businesses had computer or computer parts stolen over the weekend. One of those businesses was American Family Insurance. […] Other businesses hit in the last…
Android app releases 760,000 users’s personal data, contacts online
Adam Westlake reports: A Japanese smartphone app for Android-powered devices has reportedly leaked the personal data of some 760,000 users on the internet. The address book application, Zenkoku Denwacho (“Nationwide Address Book”), was reported to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on Saturday by NetAgent Co., an information security company, for the breach of user privacy. The application’s developer…
Follow-up: Telstra cops first TCP warning for privacy breach
Josh Taylor reports: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued Telstra a direction to comply with the privacy clause in the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code, following a 2011 privacy breach that left the details of 734,000 broadband customers vulnerable. In December last year, Telstra inadvertently exposed customer information online after one of…
OH: Neighbors Worried About Identity Theft After Thousands Of Documents Dumped On Driveway
From 10TV: Residents living in a northeast Columbus neighborhood said that they are concerned after thousands of documents were dumped at the end of a driveway overnight. Residents said that they were worried about identity theft after people’s personal information was found in the pile in the driveway of a GreenStone Homes model home in…