Kerry Sanders and Bob Sullivan report that Florida publishing firm BlueToad has stated that the database of Apple UDID’s stolen by AntiSec came from its servers. According to Sullivan: Blue Toad is a little-known privately held company, but its technology touches millions of users around the world. It provides private-label digital edition and app-building services…
Category: Of Note
Emobile, Meteor plead guilty to data legislation breaches
RTÉ reports: Two telecoms companies have pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of data protection legislation at the Dublin District Court and have been ordered to pay a total of €30,000 to two charities. The charges follow the theft of two unencrypted laptops, containing personal and financial information of customers, from the office of Eircom Ltd…
Texas Data Breach Amendment Takes Effect; Connecticut On Deck
Steve Satterfield writes: This week, the much talked-about amendments to Texas’s breach notice statute took effect. Wepreviously blogged about these amendments, which are unprecedented in scope. With the amendments, the Texas statute now requires entities doing business in Texas to notify “any individual” whose “sensitive personal information” is acquired in a breach (unless the information is encrypted). The statute makes…
Wyndham files motion to dismiss FTC privacy suit
Stephen E Wieker and Liisa M. Thomas write: In a strongly-worded motion filed in federal district court in Arizona, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts LLC recently asked the court to dismiss all charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission alleging Wyndham engaged in unfair and deceptive privacy practices. As we reported in June, according to the FTC, these practices…
Hacked FBI notebook reveals over 12,000,000 iPhone users’ details – Anonymous (updated to include FBI denial)
David Gilbert reports: A post on Pastebin claims that during the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro laptop used by FBI Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl (seen above in a video calling for computer science graduates to work with the FBI) was breached. The group claims it found a file on the computer’s desktop – labelledNCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv…
Bank vs. Customer Claims Rejected
Tracy Kitten reports: Labeling it “a very close call,” a U.S. district court has rejected a Mississippi bank’s efforts to have a former commercial customer held liable for losses, damages and legal costs in an ACH and wire fraud case. And one legal expert suggests the case could set a precedent for other similar fraud…