Remember that ridiculous lawsuit by Vernon Township against individuals to whom it had accidentally released employees’ Social Security numbers? There’s an update. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: The individuals who received the Social Security numbers of 119 Vernon employees were ordered by a judge to sign certification saying that the confidential information was deleted and not disseminated….
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Pointer: A consolidated view on data breaches in 2012
Neira Jones has been posting a series of articles on breaches that readers of this blog might find interesting. See Part 1 and Part 2 of her commentary.
UK: Alzheimer’s Society data protection audit report – Executive summary March 2013
Curious about the scope and method of the ICO’s consensual audits for data protection? Take a look at this executive summary from a recently released audit of the Alzheimere’s Society.
Court Holds that Hannaford Data Breach Suit Cannot Proceed as Class Action
In the latest development in a long-running data breach lawsuit case, Ropes & Gray write: On March 20, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Maine denied a motion brought by plaintiffs in In re Hannaford Brothers Company Data Security Breach Litigation that would have allowed the suit to proceed as a…
How Private Data Became Public on Amazon’s Cloud
Jordan Robertson reports: Companies that use Amazon’s popular cloud computing service have accidentally disclosed confidential information including sales records and source code, highlighting the risks of moving sensitive data to the Web, according to new research. Rapid7, a Boston-based security firm, said in a report released today that it found more than 126 billion files…
Finland: Data Protection Ombudsman Critizices Compliance At Finnish Companies
Sakari Aalto discusses findings from a survey conducted by Finland’s Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman. The survey, carried out at the end of 2012, surveyed 74 companies and organizations that had experienced data security breaches during October – December 2011. Aalto writes, in part: In an alarmingly large proportion of companies (30%), the security…