Back in January, there were reports that Genesco might sue card issuers over their response to the firm’s malware breach in 2010. Now dmarsteller reports that Genesco has, indeed, sued VISA. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Nashville. dmarsteller explains: VISA later fined Fifth Third Bank and Wells Fargo $5,000 each and levied another $13.3…
Category: Business Sector
LinkedIn Wins Dismissal of Privacy Lawsuit in California
Joel Rosenblatt reports: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), the biggest online professional-networking service, won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it failed to follow industry standards and its own promises in encrypting user password information. The lawsuit, filed last year in federal court in San Jose, California, followed the company’s website being hacked and 6.5 million member passwords being posted…
Is Kively.com revealing user info?
On February 7, a site reader alerted me to a possible problem over on Kively.com: Look at the description directory – it reveals all the PII when there is some in the descriptor. After looking at the description directory, I found myself wondering about whether some of the entries were, in fact, disclosing some PII. Instead…
Follow-up: Former law firm employee sentenced to 13 years in prison for role in ID theft/tax refund fraud ring
Jay Weaver provides an update with additional details on a breach involving Rodney St. Fleur, an employee of a Miami law firm who misused his access to LexisNexis database searches to steal over 20,000 individuals’ information for a tax refund fraud scheme. Weaver reports that in court, St. Fleur admitted that he had stolen the…
Central Hudson Cyber Attack Investigation Progress
Yesterday, Central Hudson Gas & Electric detected an intrusion and immediately alerted customers to the possibility that their auto-pay bank account information may have been accessed. Today they just issued the following update: Potentially Affected Customers to be Offered Free Credit Monitoring Central Hudson is continuing its investigation into a weekend cyber-security attack within its…
Korean Court Orders SK Communications to Pay Damages to ID Theft Victims
The 2011 hack affecting SK Communications, operator of Nate and Cyworld, currently stands as 10th on DataLossDB’s list of largest all-time breaches, affecting 35 million people. The breach not only resulted in lawsuits, but contributed to the government reversing its plans to implement a real-name registration policy. In the latest development, a Seoul court has…