I’ve occasionally posted audits of school districts in New York State conducted by the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Yesterday, Comptroller DiNapoli released some new audits yesterday. One of them involved an audit of information technology at the East Quogue Union Free School District in Suffolk County. The audit covered the period July 1, 2012 — August 31,…
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Insurer for Michael’s Stores sues to avoid having to defend Michael’s
And now Safety National Casualty Corp., insurers of Michael’s Stores, have sued to avoid having to cover Michael’s against class action lawsuits stemming from their breach. Story behind paywall at Law360.com.
Metropolitan Companies hacked; member personal information accessed
The Metropolitan Companies, Inc. which includes Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Metlang LLC, Metropolitan Hospitality, Inc.,CTI Metropolitan LLC, and Metropolitan Temporaries provides staffing resources for various organizations. They are in the process of notifying those who obtained work through them or who applied for work that a hacker appears to have accessed their systems and removed…
Bank not liable for customer’s $440,000 cybertheft
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A Missouri escrow firm that lost $440,000 in a 2010 cyberheist cannot hold its bank responsible, an appeals court ruled this week. The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit’s decision this month affirmed a lower court ruling in the case. The appeals court also held that the escrow firm can be…
P.F. Chang’s Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013
Brian Krebs, who broke the P.F. Chang’s breach, now has another scoop about the breach – that it appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013, and didn’t end until June 11, one day after…
Another post-Clapper Data Privacy Breach Case dismissed for lack of standing
David M. Brown of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP writes: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), continues to be relied on by federal courts to hold that “mere loss of data” or “increased risk of identity theft” in a data breach case does not constitute…