Sean O’Shea reports that when a realtor’s gmail account was hacked, it cost a home purchaser $10,000 – $10,000 that the agent and her realty firm won’t compensate. The young home buyer, Kaitlyn DiMarco, says that after she purchased a home, she received an email – purportedly from her realtor – telling her that it would cost $10,000…
Category: Of Note
Singapore: New Advisory Guidelines and Resources Available
The Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore has issued new advisory guidelines and resources, particularly for SMEs. Some of them pertain to protecting electronic personal data and managing data breaches. You can access the guidelines on their site, but here are direct links to a few of them that may be of interest: Is Personal Data Safe With…
Illinois AG sues records storage company FileFax for dumping thousands of Suburban Lung Associates’ patients’ records
There’s a follow-up to a breach that was first disclosed by CBS in Chicago in February. The incident, involving patients of Suburban Lung Associates, was reported to HHS in April as affecting 2,984 patients. The following is the press release from Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office: Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit against…
Former Tiversa employee takes the stand in FTC v. LabMD, claims Tiversa falsified data presented to FTC and Congress (updated)
Update: The transcript of Rick Wallace’s testimony is now available online, here. At the time this post was written, only an unofficial transcript was available. After months of delay while immunity was sought and obtained for a former Tiversa employee, Rick Wallace finally took the stand today in FTC v. LabMD. And as LabMD’s CEO Michael…
Supreme Court to Examine Standing Under FCRA
Jason C. Gavejian and B. Tyler Philippi write: The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to hear a case brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) to determine whether individual consumers have standing to sue a consumer reporting agency for statutory violations of the FCRA when no “actual damages” were suffered by the consumer. The FCRA, like other privacy laws,…
Three men associated with Anonymous Australia facing jail time: Part 1
Three men affiliated with Anonymous Australia are facing jail time: one for incitement, and two for serious hacking charges that could send each man to prison for many years. DataBreaches.net started looking into all three cases and how the men’s paths crossed. In this post, we provide some background and details on one of the cases. Future posts will…