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Does a presidential executive order on cybersecurity get a hotel chain off the FTC hook for its breaches?

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Dissent

I occasionally check the docket for FTC’s lawsuit against Wyndham over the multiple breaches they experienced. A story in my news reader today about how Ben Rothke of Wyndham Worldwide  gave a talk on “The five habits of highly secure organizations” struck me as somewhat ironic, and I decided to see where the lawsuit stood. Of…

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Genesco takes VISA to court over data breach (updated)

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Dissent

Back in January, there were reports that Genesco might sue card issuers over their response to the firm’s  malware breach in 2010. Now dmarsteller reports that Genesco has, indeed, sued VISA. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Nashville.  dmarsteller explains: VISA later fined Fifth Third Bank and Wells Fargo $5,000 each and levied another $13.3…

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LinkedIn Wins Dismissal of Privacy Lawsuit in California

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Dissent

Joel Rosenblatt reports: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), the biggest online professional-networking service, won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it failed to follow industry standards and its own promises in encrypting user password information. The lawsuit, filed last year in federal court in San Jose, California, followed the company’s website being hacked and 6.5 million member passwords being posted…

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SCDOR wins one in court

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Dissent

More good news for the state of South Carolina: a judge has dismissed a lawsuit against them filed by former state Sen. John Hawkins over their massive hack in 2011.  Although the ruling is not yet available online, Meg Kinnard of Associated Press reports: In an order obtained by The Associated Press, Circuit Judge G. Thomas…

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Magistrate Recommends Dismissal with Prejudice of Claims Against Global Payments

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Dissent

Craig Hoffman writes: Global Payments, which processes credit card transactions, announced on March 30, 2012 that an unauthorized person gained access to a portion of its processing system.  Global Payments later disclosed that Track 2 data (card number, expiration date, verification code but not cardholder name or address) of 1.5 million cardholders were taken.  Three…

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Central Hudson Cyber Attack Investigation Progress

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Dissent

Yesterday, Central Hudson Gas & Electric detected an intrusion and immediately alerted customers to the possibility that their auto-pay bank account information may have been accessed. Today they just issued the following update: Potentially Affected Customers to be Offered Free Credit Monitoring Central Hudson is continuing its investigation into a weekend cyber-security attack within its…

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