Reuters reports: Home Depot Inc, the world’s largest home improvement chain, said about 53 million more email addresses were taken during a recent breach of its payment data systems. […] Home Depot said the stolen files that contained the additional email addresses did not include passwords, payment card information or other sensitive personal information. Criminals…
Category: Federal
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act No Help to Employer Suing Employee Who Took Proprietary Business Info
Michelle Hackim writes: An employer had no cause of action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) against an employee who accessed its computer systems to misappropriate confidential and proprietary business information to start a competing business, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has held. Cranel Inc. v. Pro Image Consultants…
Data Breach Notification Law Unlikely in 2014
One might somewhat pessimistically insert “and is unlikely in 2015… and 2016… and…” Eric Chabrow reports on how despite its importance and the number of massive data breaches reported in the past year, a federal data breach notification law is unlikely to pass this year. No surprise there, as he notes the gap between what businesses…
Obama orders feds to adopt credit-card technology limiting identity theft
Eric Garcia reports: In an effort to combat identify theft, President Obama on Friday signed an executive order requiring government-issued credit cards to use “chip-and-pin” technology. Read more on MarketWatch. You can access the full text of the Executive Order here. It also includes helping ID theft victims remediate more quickly.
Japan’s gov’t mulls beefing up regulations on exchange of personal data among database firms
Mainichi reports: The government is considering tightening regulations on the exchange of personal data among database firms, after a systems engineer allegedly stole a massive amount of customer information from correspondence education provider Benesse Holdings Inc. and sold it to three database companies. According to investigative sources, over 200 million customer data entries were leaked…
Politicians Cynically Using JP Morgan Hack To Try To Pass Laws To Diminish Your Privacy
Mike Masnick writes: So, as you probably heard last week, JP Morgan revealed more details of how it had been hacked, noting that the number of households impacted shot up to 76 million, thus impacting a pretty large percentage of Americans. The hack involved getting access to customer names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. It doesn’t…