Aaron C. Garavaglia of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Every federal lawsuit requires standing for the court to have subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case, and standing requires an injury-in-fact. As seen from our coverage this morning out of the Second Circuit. In Derrick McCray v. John E. Wetzel & President, No. 3:20-cv-139, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS…
Is It Ethical To Buy Breached Data?
Gary Stevens writes: Research that’s done on malicious breaches of data presents a unique conundrum for the security professionals who are doing the investigating: should access to sets of breached raw data become available to public users and, if so, how? In light of the pandemic, the acceleration toward location-distributed work has the potential to…
In major ruling, 2nd Circuit says no circuit split on data breaches and standing
Alison Frankel reports: For years, I’ve been writing about a split among the federal circuits on whether data breach victims can establish a right to sue in federal court merely by showing that they are at increased risk of identity theft. Just a couple of months ago, when the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in…
FJ: Cyber attack disrupts government online services
On April 14, Luke Nacei reported: A cyber attack resulted in disruptions to some of Government’s online services and networks, including GovNet, on Monday. Attorney-General and Minister for Communications Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said as a measure of extreme precaution, advice had been disseminated across Government to protect network integrity resulting in a temporary disruption to the…
Reverb discloses data breach exposing musicians’ personal info
Lawrence Abrams reports: Popular musical instrument marketplace Reverb has suffered a data breach after an unsecured database containing customer information was exposed online. Reverb is the largest online marketplace devoted to selling new, used, and vintage musical instruments and equipment. Today, Reverb customers began receiving data breach notifications stating that customer information was exposed, including…
Forget Ransomware, Microsoft Says Cryptojacking Is Our Biggest Threat
Simon Batt reports: For a while, ransomware attacks were a hacker’s and scammer’s favorite tool for extracting money from their victims. Now, Microsoft reports that ransomware has now fallen out of favor in place of another kind of attack: cryptojacking. Why Cryptojacking Took the Number One Spot On the Microsoft Security blog, the company details how the…