From Out-Law.com: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK cannot force companies to pay compensation to consumers affected by a data breach, the watchdog has confirmed. On Monday, the UK’s culture minister Ed Vaizey told MPs in the House of Commons that it would be “a matter for the Information Commissioner’s Office and TalkTalk to decide…
Category: Of Note
Target Court Upholds Attorney-Client Privilege in Cyber Investigations
Stuart Altman and Michelle Kisloff write: In a decision issued late last Friday, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota rejected an effort by class action Plaintiffs to access materials created in the course of Target’s investigation of its 2013 payment card breach that Target claimed were protected by the attorney-client privilege and…
UK: Thousands of Morrisons employees to sue bosses over huge data breach
It’s unusual to see a data breach lawsuit in the U.K., so this one will be one to watch. The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that approximately 2,000 employees are suing supermarket chain Morrisons over an insider data breach that involved the theft and posting online of the financial and personal details of 99,998 fellow employees by a…
The FBI recommends that you pay up if hackers infect your computer with ransomware
When I saw the headline, “The FBI recommends that you pay up if hackers infect your computer with ransomware,” my first thought was that someone goofed and omitted a “not” before “pay up.” I was wrong. Tess Danielson reports: If a hacker hijacks your computer with malware and holds your data for ransom, it’s probably…
Teen arrested in TalkTalk hack (UPDATE2)
Ben Quinn and Miles Brignall report: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website. The arrest is the first major development since the phone and broadband provider said last week it had been hacked, prompting warnings from the company that the bank details and personal information of its four…
TX: Emergence Health Network notifies 11,100 mental health patients of possible PHI breach
First, their press release: (El Paso, Texas October 16, 2015) Emergence Health Network (EHN) is in the process of contacting individuals regarding an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information. An EHN computer server was compromised in August through an unauthorized internet connection. The affected computer server was disabled to minimize a compromise. It is not…