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Verizon releases it 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Dissent

Verizon has released  the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).  You can download the Executive Summary here and the full report here. The DBIR analyzes data from 19 organizations — covering more than 47,000 reported security incidents and 621 confirmed data breaches from the past year. Because VZ has the cooperation of so many organizations,…

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UK: Dumped pupil records and lost ipads among Stoke City Council data breaches

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Dissent

As always, we need to consider whether breaches are actually increasing or if it’s a matter of breach awareness and disclosure increasing. In any event, there are too many avoidable “human error” breaches, it seems: Pupil records found dumped in a country lane and 20 missing ipads are among dozens of Stoke City Council data…

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Eight years of data breaches in higher education

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Dissent

Courtesy of Open-Site.org, used under Creative Commons License: Click on image for larger version. For more breaches from the education sector, including k-12 breaches, see DataLossDB.org.

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Research reveals damage that privacy breaches can cause

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Dissent

One of the concerns I’ve repeatedly expressed about surveys about churn and reactions to breaches is that they tend to ask people what they think consumers do, and not what they actually have done.  Now we have a bit more actual data on churn from a new report based on interviews with over 750 Internet…

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Data Breach Lawsuits – Revisiting the Risks

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Dissent

Al Saikali writes: Until recently, individuals whose information was compromised as a result of a company suffering a data breach faced an uphill battle when suing the company in a class action lawsuit. Far more often than not, Courts dismissed the lawsuits or entered summary judgment in favor of defendants on grounds that the plaintiffs…

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Data Breach Class Actions Can’t Survive Certification Without Expert Testimony on Classwide Damages

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Dissent

James (Jim) R. McCullagh and Amelia M. Gerlicher of Perkins Cole recap the status and issues in a class action lawsuit against Hannaford Bros: This is the latest opinion in the ongoing litigation arising out of a massive data breach suffered by Hannaford Bros. grocery stores. In re Hannaford Bros. Privacy Litigation, __F. Supp. 2d __,…

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