Phil Kitchin reports: A lawyer’s practice used clients’ sensitive files as recycling paper for photocopying – and posted out hundreds of pages of private and confidential details about their cases. The details, sent to a former client who requested a copy of her own file, include names and addresses of people involved in suppressed court…
Category: Business Sector
Wyndham Execs Escape Derivative Suit Over Cyberattacks
Beth Winegarner reports that a shareholder’s lawsuit filed against Wyndham over its data breaches has been dismissed: A New Jersey federal judge on Monday threw out a Wyndham Worldwide Corp. shareholder’s derivative action over a series of security breaches, finding no evidence that Wyndham’s Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys had a conflict of interest when…
Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores
Brian Krebs reports: Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations in the Northeastern United States are currently dealing with a data breach. Staples says it is investigating “a potential issue” and has contacted law enforcement. According to more than a half-dozen sources at banks operating on the East…
Three Atlanta federal judges recuse themselves from Home Depot data breach lawsuits
David Allison reports: Some of the lawsuits hitting The Home Depot Inc. over its recent data breach are apparently hitting too close to home for some federal judges in Atlanta. Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is facing at least 21 lawsuits stemming from the data breach, which reportedly may affect 60 million customers. More than a dozen of the lawsuits…
CO: HuHot Mongolian Grill employee accused of skimming customers’ credit card info
Jennifer Kovaleski and Alan Gathright report: Sheridan police say they arrested an employee at HuHot Mongolian Grill who is accused of stealing customers’ credit card information. Sheridan Police Chief Mark Campbell said investigators arrested 31-year-old Michael Alexander Stephens on Wednesday afternoon. He works at the HuHot Mongolian Grill at 3698 S. Natches Ct. in the…
JP: Ex-systems engineer arrested over doctors’ data leak
Kyodo News reports: Police on Tuesday arrested a former employee of a Tokyo medical recruitment agency on suspicion of illegally copying the personal data of around 17,000 doctors and nurses. Kengo Mikami, 36, is suspected of copying the confidential information on or around May 30, 2012, while working as a systems engineer for the company…