Dell Cameron writes: A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant targeted more than two dozen countries in a series of high-profile cyberattacks in 2012. The names of many of those countries have remained secret, under seal by a court order—until now. A cache of leaked IRC chat logs and other documents obtained by the Daily…
Category: Of Note
California Amends Data Breach Notification Law, Does Not Require Mandatory Offering of Credit Monitoring
Andrew Hoffman writes: California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law an amendment to California’s data breach notification law on Monday. Although at least one news outlet has reported that the law requires a company to offer credit monitoring services, this interpretation is misguided. Rather, the law only places restrictions on certain companies if they choose to offer identity theft prevention and…
California strengthens breach notification and mitigation requirements (update 1)
The wait is over. Governor Jerry Brown signed AB1710 into law yesterday. The law not only requires “reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the [personal] information” a business owns, licenses, or maintains, but it also requires identity theft protection and mitigation services under some conditions. If notification of a breach is required,…
EPIC Urges FTC to Investigate Maricopa County Community Colleges Data Breach
Earlier this year, I reached out to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), to encourage them to join DataBreaches.net in filing a complaint with the FTC concerning the massive data breach at Maricopa County Community Colleges District (MCCCD). I am pleased to see that they have done so, agreeing with me that MCCCD is covered by…
Second data breach hits Twin Cities Cub Foods stores
Clare Kennedy reports: Supervalu Inc. reported a second data breach, saying hackers infiltrated point of sale terminals at four Twin Cities Cub Foods grocery stores in late August or September. Customer credit card information may have been taken from the Hastings, Shakopee, Roseville (Har Mar Mall) and White Bear Lake stores. Read more on Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal….
We Take Your Privacy and Security. Seriously.
One of the things Brian Krebs and I seem to have in common is that you don’t want to have to send either of us a breach notification letter. Brian writes of his own recent experience with Cox, who wrote to him and 51 other customers: “On or about Aug. 13, 2014, “we learned that one…