And now Safety National Casualty Corp., insurers of Michael’s Stores, have sued to avoid having to cover Michael’s against class action lawsuits stemming from their breach. Story behind paywall at Law360.com.
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Ca: Henry v Bell Mobility: Another Federal Court case shows PIPEDA damages are hardly worth pursuing absent evidence of actual harm
Canadian privacy lawyer David T.S. Fraser writes: The Federal Court, in the recently issued decision in Henry v Bell Mobility 2014 FC 555 (not yet on CanLII or the Court’s site) has awarded a very modest sum of damages to a customer of Bell Mobility whose phone account was accessed by an impostor. At the hearing…
Metropolitan Companies hacked; member personal information accessed
The Metropolitan Companies, Inc. which includes Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Metlang LLC, Metropolitan Hospitality, Inc.,CTI Metropolitan LLC, and Metropolitan Temporaries provides staffing resources for various organizations. They are in the process of notifying those who obtained work through them or who applied for work that a hacker appears to have accessed their systems and removed…
Code Spaces destroyed in wake of extortion demand
Ouch. Here’s the cached copy of a notice that appeared on the code hosting site earlier: Code Spaces : Is Down! Dear Customers, On Tuesday the 17th of June 2014 we received a well orchestrated DDOS against our servers, this happens quite often and we normally overcome them in a way that is transparent to the Code Spaces community. On…
P.F. Chang’s Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013
Brian Krebs, who broke the P.F. Chang’s breach, now has another scoop about the breach – that it appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013, and didn’t end until June 11, one day after…
Another post-Clapper Data Privacy Breach Case dismissed for lack of standing
David M. Brown of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP writes: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), continues to be relied on by federal courts to hold that “mere loss of data” or “increased risk of identity theft” in a data breach case does not constitute…