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Weather Shield employees find out they are identity theft victims once again

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Dissent

Back in April 2011, I noted that employees of Schield Family Brands were being alerted to a possible breach after there were 87 reported cases of ID theft/fraud affecting employees.  Schield Family Brands includes four central Wisconsin window and door manufacturers: Weather Shield, Peachtree, Vetter and Crestline.  At the time, the Secret Service took over the investigation as…

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Latvian hacker prepared to turn to EU Court of Human Rights in regard to U.S. request for his extradition

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Dissent

The Baltic Course reports: Cyber-crime suspect from Riga Deniss Calovskis has turned to the European Court of Human Rights with a petition against the request from the United States for his extradition, LETA was informed by attorney Saulvedis Varpins. The attorney said that according to announcements made by U.S. officials in the past, cyber-crimes in…

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Vernon Township ordered to pay court costs after suing hapless recipients of employees’ SSN

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Dissent

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….

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Pointer: A consolidated view on data breaches in 2012

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Dissent

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.

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UK: Alzheimer’s Society data protection audit report – Executive summary March 2013

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Dissent

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.

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Court Holds that Hannaford Data Breach Suit Cannot Proceed as Class Action

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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