Back in January, there were reports that Genesco might sue card issuers over their response to the firm’s malware breach in 2010. Now dmarsteller reports that Genesco has, indeed, sued VISA. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Nashville. dmarsteller explains: VISA later fined Fifth Third Bank and Wells Fargo $5,000 each and levied another $13.3…
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LinkedIn Wins Dismissal of Privacy Lawsuit in California
Joel Rosenblatt reports: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), the biggest online professional-networking service, won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it failed to follow industry standards and its own promises in encrypting user password information. The lawsuit, filed last year in federal court in San Jose, California, followed the company’s website being hacked and 6.5 million member passwords being posted…
SCDOR wins one in court
More good news for the state of South Carolina: a judge has dismissed a lawsuit against them filed by former state Sen. John Hawkins over their massive hack in 2011. Although the ruling is not yet available online, Meg Kinnard of Associated Press reports: In an order obtained by The Associated Press, Circuit Judge G. Thomas…
Interesting Bank of America data leak (updated)
Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll report: Anonymous hackers have released 14 gigabytes of information allegedly related to Bank of America and a web intelligence firm it hired to spy on hackers and social activists last year. Emails detail how employees of TEKSystems actively watched hacker forums and social media sites for anyremotely relevant pieces of “intelligence.” Read more on Business Insider. Cyber War…
Crowd-sourcing an idea for a law
Thanks to partisan politics and intensive industry lobbying, we have no strong federal breach notification law. This, of course, is not news to my readers. But in light of (1) Congress’s current interest in cybersecurity and sharing of information, (2) the fact that up to 40% of breaches are first detected by members of the…
Follow-up: Former law firm employee sentenced to 13 years in prison for role in ID theft/tax refund fraud ring
Jay Weaver provides an update with additional details on a breach involving Rodney St. Fleur, an employee of a Miami law firm who misused his access to LexisNexis database searches to steal over 20,000 individuals’ information for a tax refund fraud scheme. Weaver reports that in court, St. Fleur admitted that he had stolen the…