Stuart Altman and Michelle Kisloff write: In a decision issued late last Friday, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota rejected an effort by class action Plaintiffs to access materials created in the course of Target’s investigation of its 2013 payment card breach that Target claimed were protected by the attorney-client privilege and…
Category: Business Sector
UK: Thousands of Morrisons employees to sue bosses over huge data breach
It’s unusual to see a data breach lawsuit in the U.K., so this one will be one to watch. The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that approximately 2,000 employees are suing supermarket chain Morrisons over an insider data breach that involved the theft and posting online of the financial and personal details of 99,998 fellow employees by a…
Teen arrested in TalkTalk hack (UPDATE2)
Ben Quinn and Miles Brignall report: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website. The arrest is the first major development since the phone and broadband provider said last week it had been hacked, prompting warnings from the company that the bank details and personal information of its four…
UK: Experian rules out GOV.UK Verify changes after T-mobile data breach
Neil Merrett reports: Experian has opted against making any immediate changes to the service it offers as a contracted identity provider for GOV.UK Verify following an unrelated data breach last month of one of its servers that contained some identifying information of T-Mobile customers in the US. Experian is among five companies currently accredited to…
The Guardian Email Gaffe Exposes Email Addresses of 501 App Beta Testers
Oops. The Guardian was forced to apologize this morning after it inadvertently exposed the email addresses of 501 people (including myself) who volunteered to beta test an upcoming version of the publication’s iOS app. The email addresses were located in the “to” field of the email announcing the beta test instead of the more appropriate “BCC”…
Anonymous Targets Thai Govt, Leaks Data from State-owned Telecom Firm
Waqas writes: Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. […] Anonymous claims that the group managed to steal confidential details about the…