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Ca: Henry v Bell Mobility: Another Federal Court case shows PIPEDA damages are hardly worth pursuing absent evidence of actual harm

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Dissent

Canadian privacy lawyer David T.S. Fraser writes: The Federal Court, in the recently issued decision in  Henry v Bell Mobility 2014 FC 555 (not yet on CanLII or the Court’s site) has awarded a very modest sum of damages to a customer of Bell Mobility whose phone account was accessed by an impostor. At the hearing…

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Metropolitan Companies hacked; member personal information accessed

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Dissent

The Metropolitan Companies, Inc. which includes  Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Metlang LLC, Metropolitan Hospitality, Inc.,CTI Metropolitan LLC, and Metropolitan Temporaries  provides staffing resources for various organizations. They are in the process of notifying those who obtained work through them or who applied for work that a hacker appears to have accessed their systems and removed…

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Code Spaces destroyed in wake of extortion demand

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Dissent

Ouch. Here’s the cached copy of a notice that appeared on the code hosting site earlier: Code Spaces : Is Down! Dear Customers, On Tuesday the 17th of June 2014 we received a well orchestrated DDOS against our servers, this happens quite often and we normally overcome them in a way that is transparent to the Code Spaces community. On…

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P.F. Chang’s Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs, who broke the P.F. Chang’s breach, now has another scoop about the breach – that it appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013, and didn’t end until June 11, one day after…

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Another post-Clapper Data Privacy Breach Case dismissed for lack of standing

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Dissent

David M. Brown of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP writes: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), continues to be relied on by federal courts to hold that “mere loss of data” or “increased risk of identity theft” in a data breach case does not constitute…

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Evernote: Important information regarding your discussion forum account

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Dissent

Posted yesterday on Evernote: (Users impacted by this announcement will have received an email) The vendor that operates https://discussion.evernote.com has notified us that they had been hacked. The hacker was able to retrieve our forum members’ profile information. We don’t believe that the hacker accessed any private forum messages. Our forum is a completely separate service from…

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