Brian Boucher reports: Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has filed suit against Christie’s accusing the auction giant of harboring a large trove of sales data stolen by the operators of its Collectrium database. The suit alleges that Collectrium staffers used various accounts, one of them registered under the name of the silver-screen spy Jason Bourne, to pilfer data…
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CoStar Sues Longtime Competitor Xceligent, Alleging Data Theft
Peter Grant reports: CoStar Group Inc., one of the world’s largest commercial real-estate data companies, has taken direct aim at longtime competitor Xceligent with a lawsuit alleging Xceligent has been involved in “brazen and widespread theft” of its data and photos, according to legal papers filed Monday night. Read more on WSJ.
Yahoo to Defend Massive Data Breach on Home Court
Daniel R. Stoller reports: Yahoo! Inc. will be defending multidistrict consumer data breach claims in its home territory in the federal trial court based in Silicon Valley ( In re Yahoo Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig. , J.P.M.L., No. No, 2752, transfer order 12/7/16 ). The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation assigned Judge Lucy Koh of…
CA: University student indicted for DDoS attacks on Bay area online chat service (updated)
SAN FRANCISCO – Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, a graduate student in computer science, has been indicted for transmitting a program, information, code, or command causing damage to a protected computer announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The indictment, filed December 1, 2016,…
AR: Carroll County pays ransomware demand
Adam Roberts reports: The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office paid the equivalent of $2,400 in ransom money to hackers, the county announced at a press conference Monday afternoon. […] The files in question were all decrypted after the ransom was paid, the sheriff’s office said. Read more on 40/29 TV.
Quest Diagnostics notifying 34,000 patients after hacker acquired PHI
Quest Diagnostics is notifying approximately 34,000 patients after their MyQuest patient was hacked and PHI was accessed and obtained. Quest reports that they became aware of the breach on November 28, and that the patient data included name, date of birth, lab results, and, in some instances, telephone numbers. The affected information did not include Social Security numbers, credit…