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Hey “Chicken Littles,” Wyndham Doesn’t Mean the Sky is Falling

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dissent

Jeff Kosseff writes: Based on the extensive news coverage of this week’s court ruling against Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in its battle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), one would think that the sky is falling on efforts to resist FTC enforcement actions relating to data security. Adweek wrote that the case is “a test for…

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Pointing fingers, Thursday edition – U.S. Info Search tells its side

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dissent

On April 8, this blog published a post concerning the Court Ventures breach that questioned whether Experian was getting a bad rap for a breach that started with Court Ventures and its reciprocal data sharing agreement with U.S. Info Search. Unbeknownst to DataBreaches.net at the time, U.S. Info Search had issued a press release the…

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Deltek suffers cyber attack putting 80,000 employees of vendors at risk

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Dissent

Jason Miller reports: About 80,000 employees of federal contractors are at risk of identity theft after a hacker broke into business research firm Deltek’s GovWin IQ system. In an email to vendors, which Federal News Radio obtained and was confirmed by Deltek, Mike Corkery, the company’s president and CEO, said it discovered on March 13…

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Update to VALIC databreach

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Dissent

Gene Valicenti has an update on the VALIC databreach reported previously on this blog. The breach generated a number of questions, including why it took so long for the  life insurance and retirement plan firm to figure out what happened and why it took so long for them to determine who needed to be notified…

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Iowa, North Carolina join states studying Experian breach – Reuters

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Dissent

Jim Finkle and Karen Freifeld of Reuters also have more on the Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search that has put millions of consumers at risk of identity theft or financial fraud: Iowa and North Carolina said they are looking into a breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed some 200 million social security numbers,…

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Federal court denies Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ motion to dismiss FTC’s complaint

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Dissent

Ashkan Soltani has uploaded an important ruling in FTC v. Wyndham, a case discussed many times on this blog. The short version of the ruling is that Wyndham went 0 for 3 on its challenges to the FTC’s authority to enforce data security under the FTC Act, to enforce data security in the absence of regulations that…

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