Randy Ludlow reports: A state agency mistakenly turned over the personal information and bank-account numbers of about 60 Ohioans to a pair of vendors, including one that sent the records to be copied by a third party. Officials of the MARCS emergency-communications system within the Department of Administrative Services didn’t notify people whose Social Security,…
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MI: Farmington Hills mother admits stealing private personal records
Kevin Dietz has an update on an identity theft fraud case that I’ve noted previously on this site. Now Markitta Washington has admitted to stealing patient information as part of the tax refund fraud scheme. Washington, who according to court records took a job at two hospitals — the DMC’s Harper Hospital in Detroit and Henry Ford Hospital in…
LabMD and Wyndham Decisions Curtail FTC’s Data Privacy and Security Reach
Alan L. Friel and Gerald J. Ferguson of BakerHostetler provide their interpretation of recent rulings: Both the administrative law judge’s decision in LabMD and the Third Circuit’s recent decision in Wyndham, which we previously blogged about, put the FTC on notice that it cannot assume that in the wake of a security breach, allegedly inadequate data security will necessarily constitute…
Ringleader of Saks ID theft scheme pleads guilty
Jonathan Stempel reports: The ringleader of a scheme in which four former Saks Fifth Avenue employees used stolen customer data to buy $430,000 of luxury goods from the retailer’s flagship Manhattan store, with plans to resell them on the black market, has pleaded guilty, prosecutors said. Tamara Williams, 38, of Queens, pleaded guilty to grand…
Uber settles NYS probes, agrees to pay $20K fine, adopt data security provisions
I’m not seeing any press release from NYS Attorney General Schneiderman’s office yet, but Kenneth Lovett of the NY Daily News reports that Uber has settled two probes stemming from both its “God View” privacy breach scandal and delayed notification of a breach involving drivers’ information. In addition to paying the $20,000 fine to settle both probes,…
Lack of Injury Dooms Michaels Breach Class Suit
From Bloomberg Law: Because the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate actual injuries, arts and crafts retail chain Michaels Stores Inc. Dec. 28 dodged a federal court putative class action over a data breach that compromised approximately 2.6 million payment cards. Dismissing the suit without prejudice, Judge Joanna Seybert of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of…