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Payment processor YapStone sued over vacation rental payments data breach

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

From the well-that-was-quick dept.: Last week, this site reported that YapStone (VacationRentPayments) was notifying property managers and others who use their service to receive vacation rental payments that  personal information in their account applications was compromised by unauthorized persons. Yesterday, Law360 reported that a New Jersey customer has filed a lawsuit against them in California federal court accusing YapStone of…

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Is This Journalist Guilty of Low-Level Vandalism, or High-Damage Hacking?

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

The case of the former Reuters employee accused of involvement in hacking the L.A. Times has finally gone to trial. Sarah Jeong reports: A defense lawyer for Matthew Keys, a journalist charged with helping Anonymous “hack” the LA Times website, told a jury on Tuesday that his client was not guilty because he neither intended to cause…

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Court denies Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss claims arising out of point-of-sale data breach

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

Ryan M. Martin of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois recently denied the retail grocery chain Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss various claims arising from a December 2012 data breach in which hackers gained access to Schnucks’ credit/debit card processing systems. By mid-March 2013, both customers’ banks and Schnucks’…

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Major Patient Privacy Breach Alleged At Palo Alto VA

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

Benjamin Krause writes: VA OIG just reported that Palo Alto VA Health Care System unlawfully gave patient data to a private IT company despite employees not having cleared background checks. The watchdog investigated allegations that the Palo Alto VA informatics chief entered into an illegal agreement with a health care company called Kyron. VA OIG confirmed allegations…

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Data breach lawsuit against former parent company of Flowers Hospital survives motion to dismiss

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Dissent

There’s a noteworthy update to a lawsuit against Triad of Alabama, the former parent company for Flowers Hospital, whose employee was convicted on both federal and state charges for stealing and trafficking in patient information for tax refund fraud. The breach and earlier developments in the lawsuit were covered on PHIprivacy.net. Today, Lance Griffin reports that the amended class…

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NC: High school students charged with hacking into school computers

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Dissent

So simple a child could do it? Fox46 reports: Iredell County, NC – Seven high school students were charged in an Iredell County campus computer breach. On Tuesday, September 1, Iredell Statesville School System reported to the sheriff’s office they has been hacked. The school believed the suspects were students at the school. The ISS IT Department quickly…

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