On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Selna sent a lawsuit against Experian, Court Ventures, and InfoSearch back to Orange County Superior Court, denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss outright. The case is Patton v. Experian, and I blogged about it when it was first filed last year. I’ve also blogged, in the past, about how outrageous it…
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Experian sued over Court Ventures-related breach
He beat me to it. 🙂 While I took a break to argue on Twitter about the hacked Jeep story in Wired, Brian Krebs was reporting on a class action lawsuit filed against Experian over the Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch data breach that was covered extensively on both his site and on this site. The lawsuit was…
Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search/Experian breach tied to more cases of ID theft
Trot on over to KrebsOnSecurity.com, where Brian’s connecting the dots between a number of criminal prosecutions and Ngo, the Vietnamese national who posed as a Singapore investigator to get a Court Ventures account that gave him access to reports in U.S. Info Search’s database. Experian subsequently acquired Court Ventures, and Ngo’s account was allowed to continue…
Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch/Experian breach resulted in ID theft – Krebs
Brian Kreb presents some evidence that the breach involving Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch/Experian* (discussed elsewhere on this blog) did result in harm to individuals, depite an Experian executive telling Congress in December 2013 that there had been no reports of harm from the breach. Of course, it never made any sense to any of us that…
Experian sues Court Ventures to enforce indemnification in wake of Court Venture’s breach
As I tweeted last night, Experian has sued the former owner/shareholder of Court Ventures over the mess Experian found itself in when it acquired Court Ventures and later learned that a criminal had been using a Court Ventures account to access a U.S InfoSearch database with information on over 200 million Americans. Today, Jim Finkle…
At least two states investigating data breach involving Court Ventures, an Experian unit
Jim Finkle of Reuters reports: U.S. attorneys general have launched a multi-state investigation into a breach in which criminals gained access to a repository of some 200 million social security numbers through a unit of data provider Experian Plc. “We are investigating,” said Maura Possley, a spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. “It’s part…