R. Robin McDonald reports: The federal judge presiding over litigation against Home Depot stemming from a massive security data breach has ordered the Atlanta-based home supply chain to turn over to plaintiff financial institutions any communications it has exchanged with other banks over possible settlement of the pending cases. U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash…
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Hacker Plans to Dump Alleged Details of 20,000 FBI, 9,000 DHS Employees
Joseph Cox reports: A hacker, who wishes to remain anonymous, plans to dump the apparent names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 20,000 supposed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees, as well as over 9,000 alleged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, Motherboard has learned. The hacker also claims to have downloaded hundreds…
LoanBase hack due to hack in WordPress blog
JP Buntinx reports: The name LoanBase might ring a bell for most Bitcoin users as the company has been around for quite some time, albeit under a different name. Until a few months ago, this company was known under the name BitLendingClub, but the LoanBase rebranding gives the service a more professional appeal to users not versed in…
Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret
So it seems the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) hack and data dump did disclose some documents that while not shocking to me, are somewhat annoying to the public. George Joseph reports: Contracts between police and city authorities, leaked after hackers breached the website of the country’s biggest law enforcement union, contain guarantees that disciplinary records…
LabMD’s answering brief captures how ridiculous FTC’s case was, and is
I’ve been relatively quiet on this blog recently about FTC v. LabMD, but having read the latter’s answering brief to FTC’s appeal of Judge Chappell’s initial decision, I would encourage everyone to read LabMD’s brief, uploaded to this site. It really hits all the points/issues that have concerned me since the FTC first announced enforcement action against…
Eight months after laptop theft, Oceans Acquisitions notifies patients
Strike 1: Storing PHI on inactive or terminated patients on a mobile device. Strike 2: Leaving a laptop with unencrypted PHI in an unattended car. Strike 3: Not knowing you had PHI on the stolen laptop. If this was baseball, I’d call Oceans Acquisitions out. But it’s not, so… As seen on TXheadlines.com: an explanation…