Matt O’Brien reports: Yahoo has sued a former employee for allegedly feeding confidential information to a journalist who wrote a book about CEO Marissa Mayer published earlier this year. “Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!” by Business Insider journalist Nicholas Carlson relied heavily on anonymous sources to recount Mayer’s first two years running…
Category: Business Sector
Target-MasterCard settlement moves ahead despite US judge’s doubts
Joseph Ax and Nathan Layne report: A federal judge has rejected a bid from a group of banks and credit unions suing Target Corp over its 2013 data breach to block the company’s proposed $19 million settlement with MasterCard Inc . U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote in a ruling Thursday that…
InterContinental Hotel Groups alerted by Secret Service to breach
It seems Six Continents Hotels (InterContinental Hotel Groups) was notified earlier this year by the Secret Service that some of its hotels had suffered a data security breach. One of the hotels IHG subsequently notified was Cities Service (Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Sulphur, Louisiana). IHG alerted them on February 11, 2015. When Cities Service…
Illinois AG sues records storage company FileFax for dumping thousands of Suburban Lung Associates’ patients’ records
There’s a follow-up to a breach that was first disclosed by CBS in Chicago in February. The incident, involving patients of Suburban Lung Associates, was reported to HHS in April as affecting 2,984 patients. The following is the press release from Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office: Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit against…
MI: FireKeepers Casino investigating possible data security breach
Lansing State Journal reports: FireKeepers Casino Hotel is investigating a possible data security incident involving the casino’s point of sale system, Vice President of Marketing Jim Wise said Wednesday. Wise said the investigation comes after the casino recently received “a couple of calls” from guests indicating concern about their bank or credit card statements. Wise…
Lawsuit: Home Depot data breach was caused by management’s ‘overarching complacency’ over security
David Allison reports: Consumers hurt in the giant Home Depot data breach have filed a consolidated lawsuit that accuses the company’s management of “overarching complacency when it came to data security.” In a 187-page complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta on May 1, consumers state their case that by allowing the data breach to…