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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security…

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District Court Finds no CFAA Violation where Employee Shares Confidential Company Information with Competitor

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Dissent

Jason C. Gavejian and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: A district court in Tennessee recently concluded in Wachter Inc. v. Cabling Innovations LLC that two former employees who allegedly shared confidential company information found on the company’s computer system with a competitor did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The CFAA expressly…

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Shubert Organization Suffers Data Breach

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Dissent

Marc Hershberg reports: Someone snuck into the Shubert Organization. According to a letter mailed to certain customers, Shubert executives came across some suspicious activity on an employee’s email account last February, and teamed up with some forensic experts to investigate what was happening. The probe found that someone had gained access to several employee’s email…

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Medical Informatics Engineering Agrees to Pay $100,000 and to Implement Corrective Action Plan to Settle 2015 HIPAA Breach

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Dissent

From HHS, an update on the Medical Informatics Engineering breach of 2015 that resulted in a multi-state lawsuit (the first of its kind) in December, 2018: Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (MIE) has paid $100,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and has agreed take corrective…

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Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies There Is No Duty to Safeguard Personal Information from a Data Breach

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Dissent

Gavin Reinke of Alston & Bird writes: The Georgia Supreme Court recently issued a decision holding that there is no duty to safeguard personal information from a data breach under Georgia law.  Georgia Department of Labor v. McConnell involved the accidental disclosure of a spreadsheet that contained the name, social security number, home telephone number,…

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Update: Georgia Tech to offer credit monitoring after data breach affecting 1.3M

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Dissent

Aaron Diamant reports: ATLANTA – Georgia Tech is taking steps to help people whose personal information may have been compromised during a data breach. Channel 2’s Aaron Diamant has been following this story since it broke in April, when the college said someone gained unauthorized access to a web application, affecting nearly 1.3 million people, including “some current…

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