Sometimes a story just lands in your lap that is so incredible that you can’t believe it, but it’s such a great story that you can’t just ignore it, either. Sometimes you wind up debunking it, sometimes you wind up confirming it, and sometimes, you take the story as far as you can and still…
Category: Of Note
Court grants stay in FTC v. LabMD
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has granted LabMD’s request for a stay of FTC’s final order in FTC v. LabMD. From the opinion: First, it is not clear that a reasonable interpretation of § 45(n) includes intangible harms like those that the FTC found in this case. As the FTC Opinion said, § 45(n)…
15 state attorneys general settle with Adobe over 2013 data breach
Attorney General George Jepsen joined 14 other state attorneys general today in announcing a $1 million data breach settlement with the software and technology company Adobe Systems, Inc. The settlement resolves an investigation into the 2013 breach of certain Adobe servers, including servers containing the personal information of approximately 552,000 residents of the participating states. Connecticut…
IN: Madison County pays ransom on advice of insurer
Well, this is interesting: a media report says that a county’s insurer advised them to pay a ransomware demand. Ken de la Bastide reports: On the advice of their insurance company Madison County officials are moving forward to pay the ransom demands by a unknown group that attacked the county’s computer system. Madison County was…
Yahoo hack: Yahoo said its employees knew about the hack in 2014
ITPro reports: In a securities filing on Wednesday, Yahoo said some of its employees knew that a “state-sponsored actor” had broken into its network two years ago. This was the attack that led to theft of data such as names, dates of birth and passwords associated with more than 500 (sic) accounts. It’s considered to be one…
UK: TLT v SoS: How do you quantify damages for data breaches?
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Chantelle Taylor write: A recent High Court decision, TLT and others v Secretary of State for the Home Office [2016] EWHC 2217 (QB) (“TLT v SoS”), paves the way for the greater recognition of distress in cases of data breaches and the misuse of private information. The victims of a data breach, in this case asylum…