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VA: Twins indicted for hacking, wire fraud, and ID theft

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Dissent

On April 30, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 23, of Springfield, Virginia. They were charged with aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization, access of a protected computer without authorization, conspiracy to access a government computer without authorization, false…

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CA: Santa Maria Coco’s Restaurant closes suddenly; ex-employees say personal info left in dumpster

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Dissent

Charlie Misra reports: The sudden closure of Coco’s Bakery and Restaurant in Santa Maria a few days ago was a shock to both employees and customers. Former employees say they’ve been dealt another blow and some of them found their personnel files tossed in the dumpsters out back. Read more on KSBY.

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FDIC OIG publishes results of audit of personally identifiable information in owned real estate properties

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Dissent

Buckley Sandler LLP writes: On April 28, the FDIC’s Office of the Inspector General published a report – The FDIC’s Controls for Identifying, Securing, and Disposing of Personally Identifiable Information in Owned Real Estate Properties– regarding its audit of the agency’s internal controls of personally identifiable information (PII) in owned real estate (ORE) properties, which it…

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Finra CARDS data breach risk is real

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Dissent

Alessandra Malito reports: Potential security risk concerns over Finra’s highly-debated Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System proposal, or CARDS, are not simply hot air, cybersecurity and big data experts say. The initiative by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., which was recently put on hold for further evaluation amid negative feedback, was proposed as a means of…

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Potential class action lawsuit against eBay dismissed

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Dissent

It was a good day for eBay in a federal court in  Louisiana. Judge Susie Morgan dismissed, without prejudice, a potential class action lawsuit that had filed in July 2014 by Collin Green against eBay over the data breach they had disclosed in 2014. At the time, eBay said it had no evidence that payment…

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Supreme Court to Examine Standing Under FCRA

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Dissent

Jason C. Gavejian and B. Tyler Philippi write: The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to hear a case brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) to determine whether individual consumers have standing to sue a consumer reporting agency for statutory violations of the FCRA when no “actual damages” were suffered by the consumer. The FCRA, like other privacy laws,…

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