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California Amends Data Breach Notification Law, Does Not Require Mandatory Offering of Credit Monitoring

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Dissent

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…

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California strengthens breach notification and mitigation requirements (update 1)

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Dissent

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,…

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EPIC Urges FTC to Investigate Maricopa County Community Colleges Data Breach

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Dissent

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…

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Second data breach hits Twin Cities Cub Foods stores

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Dissent

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….

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We Take Your Privacy and Security. Seriously.

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Dissent

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…

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Security Breach Puts Altegrity’s Integrity And Liquidity On The Line

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Dissent

Kate Marino reports: Hackers have claimed some high-profile corporate victims over the last year, with household names like Target and Home Depot typically reaping the lion’s share of media attention. Cyber attacks represent a growing threat to the business world, and their fallout could cost the global economy as much as $3 trillion by 2020, according to a McKinsey & Co….

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