William Dotinga reports: Adobe will face the bulk of a class action stemming from “shoddy security protocols” that led to a massive data breach, a federal judge ruled Thursday. After hackers stole the credit card and log-in data of 38 million people from Adobe’s systems last year, consumers behind the sprawling consolidated action faulted Adobe for ignoring…
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Update: Man who stole fellow soldiers’ identity info sentenced to two years in prison
Amy Forliti of AP has update to a previously reported breach: A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to stealing identification information from members of his former Army unit at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg has been sentenced to two years in prison. Keith Michael Novak was sentenced Friday in federal court on one count of identity theft. Read more on…
FL: Pompano woman faces up to 32 years in prison for involvement in ID theft fraud
Another follow-up to a previously reported case. Emily Miller reports: A Pompano Beach woman faces up to 32 years in prison for her participation in an identity theft fraud scheme involving personal identifying information from AT&T customer files. Monique Smith, 31, of Pompano Beach, has pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera
Jonathan Mayer writes: I’m excited to be teaching Stanford Law’s first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance. In preparation, I’ve been extensively poking around the platform; while I found some snazzy features, I also stumbled across a few security and privacy issues. Any teacher can dump the entire user database, including over nine million names and email addresses. If…
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Class Action Suit Filed Against Home Depot For Consumer Data Security Breach (press release)
Update: Goodwill POS malware breach impacted 868,000 credit and debit cards
Max Smolaks reports: US charity Goodwill Industries International has announced the results of a six week long investigation into a suspected data breach, admitting that around 868,000 customer credit and debit cards have been compromised. Read more on TechWeek Europe.