Molly Wash, a campus reporter, reports that Share Point may have shared too much, but it’s not clear to me from the report how this happened. A data security breach resulted in the disclosure of the names and Social Security numbers of Columbia employees and their family members on IRIS, the college’s internal website. The…
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SuperValu Data Breach Claim Nixed, Court Sees No Consumer Harm
Daniel R. Stoller reports: Grocery store chains SuperValu Inc. and New Albertson’s Inc. again dodged class claims over a 2014 data breach that impacted over 1,000 stores, after a federal court said hacked payment card data didn’t inflict enough direct harm to sustain a lawsuit. Judge Ann D. Montgomery of the U.S. District Court for…
Leon County Schools vendor’s data leak exposed 368,000 current and former FLVS students’ details, LCS teacher data, and more
Leon County Schools in Tallahassee, Florida has more than 34,000 students, more than 2,400 teachers, and a total of 4,300 employees. That’s a lot of students and teachers to notify when you discover that a third-party vendor’s mistake exposed their personal information for almost two years. But it’s not as much as the vendor, Florida…
Ninth Circuit Revives Data Breach Claims Against Zappos
In January, 2012, Zappos announced that they were notifying more than 24 million consumers to change their passwords following a hack. In the months that followed, a to-be-predicted lawsuit was filed, and state attorneys general started investigating. Eventually, Zappos settled with states, and the class-action lawsuit was dismissed in 2015. Whew, right? Not so fast, though. Ross Todd…
CO: Front Range Dermatology Associates notifies patients of insider-wrongdoing incident
Tommy Wood reports: Front Range Dermatology Associates, which has locations in Greeley, Loveland Fort Collins and Fort Morgan, suffered a breach of medical records in January, the company announced in a news release. The compromised data includes patients’ names, medical record numbers, dates of service, billing codes, names of insurance companies and dates and amounts…
Stolen University Hard Drive Potentially Exposes Thousands of Records
Robert Rodriguez reports: The theft of an external hard drive at Fresno State could expose the personal data of at least 15,000 people. The hard drive was reported missing Jan. 12 and Fresno State officials said some of the files may have contained personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, credit card numbers,…