[Sony Gaming Networks and Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, case number 3:11-md-02258 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California] Juan Carlos Rodriguez reports that Sony Corp. is trying again to get the amended complaint about it tossed. The lawsuit stems from the massive hack of its PlayStation and Qriocity networks in April 2011….
Category: Breach Incidents
Banks Ask 5th Circ. To Revive Heartland Data Breach Claims
Megan Stride of Law360 writes that a lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems over their 2008 breach may not be totally dead: A group of banks on Friday asked the Fifth Circuit to revive their negligence claims against Heartland Payment Systems Inc. in multidistrict litigation over a 2008 data breach, saying Heartland’s claim that it shared a…
How not to explain a breach, Sunday edition
I came across a media report on what appears to be a breach involving card numbers of guests and employees of Island Resort & Casino in Michigan. But was it their breach or not? Read the casino’s statement: We would like to address the many rumors that are in circulation regarding the harvesting of credit/debit…
SCDOR breach: Judge dismisses Governor and former DOR director as defendants
Meg Kinnard of Associated Press reports that Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper has dismissed Governor Haley and South Carolina’s former revenue director as defendants in a lawsuit over the state’s massive security breach last year in the Department of Revenue. But… and this will be interesting to watch, the judge said he needed more time…
Judge tentatively approves Cord Blood Registry class action lawsuit settlement
It’s been an interesting few weeks for those who have followed the Cord Blood Registry (CBR) data breach. As background: back in February 2011, CBR disclosed that backup tapes with 300,000 people’s information had been stolen from an employee’s unattended vehicle in December 2010. CBR offered those affected one year of free credit monitoring and…
50,000 Accounts leaked from Pympy.com
A Spanish language based social network style provider Pympy.com has been hacked and over 50,000 accounts have been leaked The attack was announce by hacker @AnonVoldemort on twitter just a short time ago. > Pympy Resources for social networks, forums, Hi5, Facebook, Myspace, twitter +70.000 Users DATA-DUMP @cyber_war_news goo.gl/hEcl9 — Voldem0rt (@AnonVoldemort) February 1, 2013 The leaked…