Over on Emergent Chaos, Adam disagrees with ITRC’s proposed Minors 17-10 Database to reduce child identity theft: …. Unfortunately, this idea is totally and subtly broken. Today, the credit agencies don’t get lists from the SSA. This is a good thing. There’s no authorization under law for them to do so. The fact that they’ve…
Category: Of Note
EMI v. Comerica: Court Finds Commercially Reasonable Security — Bank Loses Motion for Summary Judgment
David Navetta provides a legal analysis of the court’s denial of the bank’s motion for summary judgment in the case. An odd result — we know. We previously reported on the lawsuit filed by Experi-Metal, Inc. (“EMI”) and the subsequent motion for summary judgment (and briefs) filed by Comerica Bank to have the case dismissed….
VA Data Breaches Go Live
Bob Brewin alerts us to another new resource on data breaches: Today the Veterans Affairs Department started posting online its monthly data breach reports as part of its ongoing transparency thing, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told a press briefing this morning. He said the latest report (for July) might not make it to…
Alleged International Credit Card Trafficker Arrested in France on U.S. Charges Related to Sale of Stolen Card Data
An international credit card trafficker thought to be one of the most prolific sellers of stolen data was arrested in Nice, France, on Aug. 7, 2010, on charges in an indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, aka “BadB” of Moscow, Russia, was indicted by a…
126,000 college students and employees notified of breach
The College Center for Library Automation (CCLA), which provides automated library services and electronic resources to Florida’s public colleges, today began informing students, faculty, and staff of six colleges that some of their personal information was inadvertently open to online access between May 29 and June 2, 2010. A copy of the e-mail notification can…
RBS WorldPay hacker extradicted to Atlanta
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern Georgia issued a press release today announcing the extradition of Sergei Tsurikov, one of the alleged leaders of the Eastern European cybercrime group that hacked into RBS WorldPay in Atlanta in 2008. Tsurikov had been indicted in November 2009 on federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire…