I haven’t read the court document yet, but Law360 alerts us that Wyndham won a round in court and succeeded in getting the FTC’s lawsuit moved to New Jersey from Arizona.
Category: Breach Incidents
Bullying is not an appropriate breach response
I recently posted what I considered to a stupid lawsuit – one where the party that had a breach sued the hapless recipients of the breached information. Today I found another example of bullying and threats in response to a breach. It seems that an employee of Tooele County made an error years ago and…
Official Mcdonald’s Austria, Taiwan & Korea Hacked. Over 200k Credentials Leaked
Turkish Ajan hacker group member Maxney has been at it again this time taking sights to fast food giant McDonald’s (again). Maxn3y and another hacker using the handle xXM3HM3TXx have breached the official sites for Austria (https://mcdonalds.at/), Taiwan (https://mcdonalds.com.tw/) and as a result over 200,000 credentials from various parts of the sites have been leaked via file sharing site speedyshare.com…
Mossad web site data hacked by #OpIsrael, agents data leaked. Oh really?
When HackRead reported, #OpIsrael: Mossad Website breached, Personal Details of over 30,000 Agents Leaked by Anonymous, my first thought was that I wished they didn’t just uncritically repeat claims. Did they examine the database/spread sheets before repeating tweets and claims? I did a random check of the database, and frankly, I find it extremely unlikely that…
Stupidest Lawsuit of the Week: Vernon Township files suit in Social Security numbers breach that they caused; accuses the recipients of violating employee privacy
Jessica Masulli Reyes reports that Vernon Township in New Jersey is suing the recipients of an inadequately redacted email attachment with town employees’ Social Security numbers. They are also reportedly suing the newspaper that published a story about the breach. Riiiiight…. Reyes writes: The lawsuit, filed by Kevin Kelly in state Superior Court in Newton…
Court Favors Bank in Fraud Dispute; Customer Had Declined Dual Authentication
More on the lawsuit and countersuit between Choice Escrow and Land Title and BancorpSouth, mentioned previously on this blog. Tracy Kitten reports: A federal court has sided with a Mississippi bank in a lingering dispute with a customer over financial losses linked to an account takeover incident dating back to March 2010. That means the bank will…