New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement between a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general from around the nation and the Westchester County debt collection agency Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), that resolves a multistate investigation into the company’s 2019 data breach. The breach exposed the personal information —…
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Cyber attack causes systems outage at Molson Coors
Yesterday, WTMJ reported: Molson Coors was the target of a cyber attack, the company confirmed to WTMJ on Wednesday. The brewery experienced a “systems outage due to a cyber-security incident,” according to Adam Collins, the company’s chief communications and corporate affairs officer. While some outlets questioned whether the attack might be related to the Microsoft…
JP: Unauthorized access occurred in Urban Research; personal information of about 310,000 people leaked
Translation: Urban Research has announced that the official in the online store by the unauthorized access by a third party, personal information of 317,326 persons of all member there is a fear that has flowed out. The leaked information does not include credit card numbers, and no secondary damage such as unauthorized use has been…
UK: Solicitor caught dumping client files in the street
The SRA has fined a solicitor for dumping rubbish bags containing client information outside his office. Trevor Nicholas Senkatuka was the sole practitioner of the now-defunct firm, Windsor Croft Solicitors, in Essex. The local council fined him for fly-tipping on the pavement outside his office. Council workers took photographs of the bags which revealed that they contained private client information. “The public would…
Facebook’s lawyers blast attorney fees bid in Adkins v. Facebook settlement
Sara Merken reports: Facebook Inc is pushing back on plaintiffs lawyers’ request for nearly $12 million in fees and costs for securing an injunctive relief-only settlement stemming from a 2018 cyberattack that affected millions of Facebook users. […] The litigation stemmed from a September 2018 breach that affected the personal information of about 29 million…
German soccer club Stuttgart fined for data breach
AP reports: German soccer club Stuttgart has been fined 300,000 euros ($357,000) for misusing private data about its members, a regulator said Wednesday. Stuttgart had been accused of passing on data which was potentially useful for marketing to third parties without informing members. Read more on AP.