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IRS’s Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Continuing its enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service announced the Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14).  The ongoing efforts to bring identity thieves to justice remains a significant priority as part of the IRS’s comprehensive identity theft strategy focusing on preventing, detecting and resolving identity…

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MX: Vivanuncios user data stolen by hacker (nah – scraped by competitor)

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Update/Clarification: eBay reached out to DataBreaches.net to ask that we make clear that the breach did not occur after eBay purchased the site, but rather, it occurred while it was still on the W3 system – before eBay bought it. eBay also notes that “we launched an entirely new platform on January 15, 2015 when the acquisition was…

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US watchdog: Anthem snubbed our security audits before and after enormous hack attack

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Dissent

Shaun Nichols reports: A year or so before American health insurer Anthem admitted it had been ruthlessly ransacked by hackers, a US federal watchdog had offered to audit the giant’s computer security – but was rebuffed. And, after miscreants looted Anthem’s servers and accessed up to 88.8 million private records, the watchdog again offered to audit the insurer’s…

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AU: Immigration removals delayed pending assessment of data breach

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Patrick Gunning of King & Wood Mallesons writes: The Immigration department’s well publicised 2014 data security breach continues to cause difficulties for the Department. In late January and mid February the courts have issued interlocutory injunctions preventing the removal from Australia of certain asylum seekers pending the outcome of administrative law challenges to decisions to refuse…

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Illinois Attorney General seeks stronger data breach bill

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently drafted legislation to strengthen the state’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). Originally passed in 2005 at Attorney General Madigan’s direction, PIPA made Illinois among the first states in the country to require entities that suffer a data breach to notify Illinois residents if the breached information included residents’ drivers’ license…

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Recap of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Katherine Gasztonyi reports: Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp.The court focused on several themes: First, whether Congress has entrusted the FTC to define new unfair practices, whether the FTC has declared that unreasonable cybersecurity practices are unfair, and whether the FTC is asking the…

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