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Data Breach Plaintiffs Survive Dismissal Against Target

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Dissent

If you haven’t kept up with all the lawsuits against Target over its 2013 data breach, Amelia Gerlicher and Todd M. HinnenTodd M. Hinnen of Perkins Coie provide a useful write-up of where things stand now. You can read it on JDSupra.

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Proposed data breach bill in Washington State: comments

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Dissent

So I’ve just read the proposed legislation for revising Washington State’s data breach notification law (see the WA AG’s press release on the proposal here). A few comments/observations on the bill: 1. The bill eliminates the word “computerized” before “data,” thereby seemingly expanding the data breach notification requirements to paper records or other formats.  That…

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NAFCU Deems Data Encryption Rule Unnecessary

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Dissent

Nicholas Ballasy reports: The NCUA should look internally for ways to better protect credit union members’ data, rather than impose a new rule, according to NAFCU Director of Regulatory Affairs Alicia Nealon. Nealon’s statement was made in response to NCUA Board Chairman Debbie Matz floating the possibility of a proposed data encryption rule after an agency…

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Verifying leaks uncovers “fake leaks”

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Dissent

Posted by @Cyber_War_News to Pastebin today: Today has been interesting, to say the least. Skipping all the bullshit lets get right to the main stinky shit. Anonymous twitter user @AnonymousGlobo announced earlier today this: https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/547426305151860736 https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/548537460691857408 Now after working with data leaks for years now it became clearly obvious to me that this was fake….

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World’s Biggest Data Breaches

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Dissent

Ooh, pretty.  Look what the folks at Information is Beautiful did with data from DataBreaches.net and the Identity Theft Resource Center: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

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Throwing Money at Data Breach May Make It Worse – Survey

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Dissent

From the University of Arkansas on Newswise: Information systems researchers at the University of Arkansas, who studied the effect of two compensation strategies used by Target in reaction to a large-scale data breach that affected more than 70 million customers, have found that overcompensation of affected customers may only raise suspicions rather than satisfy customers’…

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