Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On December 15, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement with Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, a Texas-based mortgage industry data analytics company (“Ascension”), to resolve allegations that the company failed to ensure one of its vendors was adequately securing personal information of mortgage holders. The FTC alleged that Ascension’s vendor, OpticsML,…
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Data breach discovered in Jerusalem Municipality website
The Jerusalem Post reports: A breach granting access to documents containing the personal information of hundreds of thousands of residents was found and repaired in the Jerusalem Municipality’s website, the tech website Geektime reported on Wednesday. The breach was discovered by Hezkiyahu Raful, a programmer, while he was trying to help his uncle file an…
Riverside Community Care notifies clients of October ransomware attack
On November 9, DataBreaches.net posted a commentary calling for patients to be notified sooner when their data had been stolen and dumped by ransomware threat actors. In the companion article to that post, Without Undue Delay, specific victims were listed with comments as to whether they had notified patients or not. One of those victims who…
Personal Data from Thousands of Pension Plan Accounts Breached…Third-Party Service Provider Blamed
Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: One of the last things pension plan participants would want to learn as they get ready to celebrate the Christmas holiday is that personal data from their pension accounts may have been compromised. This is the case, unfortunately, for approximately 30,000 Now:Pensions customers whose names, postal and email addresses,…
What was just a hope a few years ago, is now a reality: more coordinated state AG actions investigating breaches
Those in the privacy law community will remember Danielle Citron’s seminal research on state attorneys general and their role in investigating privacy and data security breaches. I reported on that research back in June, 2016 on PogoWasRight.org. As those who are regular readers of this site know, there have been more announcements of multi-state settlements…
GoDaddy cold-hearted phishing exercise got employees’ hopes up — only to dash them
GoDaddy really f***ed up. There’s simply no other way to put it even though they try to justify it by saying that they mimicked really forces in play these days. On December 23, Lorraine Longhi tweeted: With the holidays around the corner, GoDaddy employees received an email last week offering some welcome financial relief: a…