Natasha Singer reports: When Tony Porterfield’s two sons came home from elementary school with an assignment to use a reading assessment site called Raz-Kids.com, he was curious, as a parent, to see how it worked. As a software engineer, he was also curious about the site’s data security practices. And he was dismayed to discover that…
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Credit card data stolen from Mesa del Sol Golf Club
The Yuma Sun reports: Yuma County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the fraudulent use of credit card numbers stolen from the Mesa del Sol Golf Club clubhouse in January. Sheriff’s spokesman Alfonso Zavala said Thursday there are at least 41 known unauthorized transactions stemming from the breach, though he didn’t know the number of cards they…
Fifth Circuit holds liability coverage for claimed violations of “person’s right of privacy” does not extend to lawsuit brought by business
Jon T. Neumann and Benjamin B. Watson of Steptoe & Johnson LLP write: In Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Gum Tree Property Management, L.L.C., ___ F. App’x ___, 2015 WL 170244 (5th Cir. Jan. 14, 2015), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, applying Mississippi law, affirmed the district court’s summary judgment order holding that a…
AU: TPG’s cloud arm wins small victory in stolen data lawsuit
Allie Coyne reports: The cloud services arm of TPG Telecom has won a small victory in an ongoing legal battle with rival Core Desktop over the latter’s alleged use of confidential business data to steal customers. Trusted Cloud this week successfully defeated an application by Core Desktop that claimed evidence provided by the TPG subsidiary…
Raptr Suffers Security Breach
GamePolitics reports: In an email sent to Raptr subscribers today from Raptr CEO Dennis Fong, the social gaming platform revealed that it had suffered a security breech (sic) and urged users to take necessary precautions to avoid any potential danger. In the letter, Fong said that, while the threat to users is minor, some personal…
Report Claims Russians Hacked Sony
From the how-many-people-were-in-there dept., Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Russian hackers, using spear-phishing attacks, successfully breached the network of Sony Pictures Entertainment in November 2014, and continue to have on-demand access to Sony’s network, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Taia Global. But it’s not clear if those hackers unleashed the malware attack and data…