Grant Gross reports: Recent data breaches at Sony’s PlayStation Network and at e-mail service provider Epsilon will lead to legislation focused on improving cybersecurity at U.S. companies, the chairwoman of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee said Thursday. Representative Mary Bono Mack, a California Republican, said she will soon introduce legislation focused on ensuring that…
Category: Business Sector
YASH (Yet Another Sony Hack)
From the this-can’t-be-good dept. and the folks at Lulz Security: Greetings folks. We’re LulzSec, and welcome to Sownage. Enclosed you will find various collections of data stolen from internal Sony networks and websites,all of which we accessed easily and without the need for outside support or money. We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over…
Comments of the World Privacy Forum regarding the proposed consent order in The Matter of Ceridian Corporation
The World Privacy Forum offers comments on the proposed consent order, In the Matter of Ceridian Corporation, FTC File No. 102 3160. The World Privacy Forum is a non-profit, nonpartisan public interest research group that focuses on consumer education as well as analysis and research of privacy issues, including issues relating to health care privacy,…
Michaels Stores hit with 2nd suit seeking class-action status [repost]
[repost] Becky Yerak reports: Michaels Stores Inc., which disclosed that its checkout-line PIN pads were tampered with in Illinois and 19 other states, has been hit with two lawsuits seeking class-action status by consumers alleging that the arts and crafts retailer failed to safeguard shoppers’ credit and debit card information and PIN numbers. The latest…
SelfCatering.ie hack revealed in report on Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner [repost]
[repost] One of the case studies in the 2010 annual report of the Data Protection Commissioner discussed a breach that I had not seen before: Case study 14: Hacking attack on SelfCatering.ie website A bank made a data security breach notification to my Office in 2009 in relation to the credit cards of 1200 customers…
Honda Data Breach Triggers Lawsuit [repost]
[repost] Mathew J. Schwartz reports: … As with the Sony breach, lawyers for Honda customers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of affected customers, seeking 200 million Canadian dollars ($206 million). The claim says that the breach exposed customers to “theft of their identity, theft from their bank accounts, and theft from their debit…