Marion Neumann reports (translation): Munich – In times of the corona lockdown , online shopping is probably a blessing for many people. Products can be conveniently delivered to your home with just a few clicks. However, the shopping experience becomes problematic when there are difficulties with data protection. There was such a problem recently with the online shop voelkner.de . According…
‘Particularly Egregious’: US Fertility Hit with Class Action Over Month-Long 2020 Data Breach
Corrado Rizzi reports: US Fertility, LLC faces a proposed class action centered on a reported September 2020 data breach in which hackers armed with ransomware gained access to a trove of personal information from the fertility clinic support services company’s clients. The 29-page lawsuit in Maryland federal court says hackers were able to access US…
UK: Foxtons customer data leaked onto the dark web
Sabina Weston reports: Financial details belonging to customers of UK estate agency Foxtons are widely available on the dark web following a malware attack in October last year that affected parent company Foxtons Group. Despite admitting that the incident affected its subsidiary Alexander Hall, which specialises in mortgage broking, Foxtons assured its customers at the time that no “sensitive…
Google says it’s too easy for hackers to find new security flaws
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: … according to new research from Maddie Stone, a security researcher at Google: that it’s far too easy for hackers to keep exploiting insidious zero-days because companies are not doing a good job of permanently shutting down flaws and loopholes. The research by Stone, who is part of a Google security…
Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department investigates potential data security incident
Tiffany Bechtel reports: The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department has received notice that an unknown person has been claiming to have stolen data from TravelOK.com and related websites. Officials say once the department was made aware of the claims they immediately contacted the Oklahoma Cyber Command to launch an investigation into the incident. They also took…
Court Denies Motion for Class Certification in Employee W-2 Data Breach Litigation
Joseph Lazzarotti and d Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: In recent years, there has been an uptick of W-2 phishing scams, and their consequences for an employer extend well beyond leaked data, including potential employee class action litigation. Just last week, a federal court in Illinois rejected a motion for class certification in a data…