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Wyndham: A Case Study in Cybersecurity: How the cost of a relatively small breach can rival that of a major hack attack

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Dissent

Timothy Cornell of Clifford Chance US LLP has an interesting write-up on the Wyndham case that really details the time and labor costs of responding to a government investigation following a data breach. Here’s an example: On April 8, 2010, the FTC began to investigate Wyndham Worldwide and three of its subsidiaries (collectively “Wyndham”), sending Wyndham…

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Judge OKs $10 million settlement in Target data breach

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Dissent

Steve Karnowski and Michelle Chapman of AP report: A Minnesota judge has endorsed a settlement in which Target Corp. will pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a massive data breach in 2013. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson said at a hearing Thursday in St. Paul, Minnesota, that he would grant preliminary approval…

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GA: Taco Bell Employee Stole Identities While Working Drive-Thru Window

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Dissent

Kristal Dixon reports: An employee at a fast food restaurant is accused of stealing customers’ financial information to make unauthorized purchases. Roswell police have arrested and charged Rosetta Louise Brinson with two counts of identity fraud, obstruction of a law enforcement officer and two counts of computer theft. Fulton County Jail records show Brinson was…

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Target Poised to Pay $10M to Data Breach Victims in Proposed Settlement

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Dissent

Steve Tellier reports: Court documents indicate Target has reached a possible settlement agreement in the massive credit card data breach in 2013. According to the documents, Target has agreed to put $10 million toward a settlement fund, with individuals who can prove they suffered financial harm as a result of the breach splitting that pot…

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EMC data security fails the old fashioned way

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Dissent

David Chernicoff writes: I received an interesting letter in the mail yesterday from EMC Corporation. It seems that at some point in the last two months of 2014 they managed to lose control of my basic personal information, including my date of birth and Social Security number — giving the ability to whoever acquired the…

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Benesse Holdings discloses yet another customer information data leak

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Dissent

Kyodo News reports more data leak woes for Benesse Holdings. The correspondence education provider is still dealing with the fallout from a data theft last June that affected 28.95 million customers when a systems engineer working for an affiliate, Synform, downloaded personal information, including children’s names, addresses and birth dates, onto his smartphone. In September, the government…

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