Alexander J. Martin reports: Gwent Police is being investigated after failing to inform hundreds of people that hackers may have accessed their confidential reports to the force. Sky News has learned that up to 450 people who filed reports through an online tool over a two-year period could have been put at risk by hackers…
Yahoo Enters $80 Million Securities Class Action Settlement After Data Breach
J. Robert MacAneney of Carlton Fields writes: On March 5, Yahoo, Inc. (“Yahoo”) announced a proposed settlement in In re Yahoo Inc. Securities Litigation, which was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The $80 million proposed settlement relates to a securities class litigation stemming from Yahoo’s 2013 and 2014 data breaches. While many…
ATI Physical Therapy notifies patients of data breach
ATI Physical Therapy is notifying patients of a security incident that appears to have targeted employees’ email accounts. Here is their update of March 12, although I’m not sure when any previous notification may have been published (their newsroom does not show any prior notice on their site): About the data privacy event ATI Holdings,…
UPDATE: FLVS leak affected 50,000 Leon County employees and students
WGCU has the update here. Note that they will be sending out individual notifications. It’s not clear whether FLVS is sending out individual notifications to any of the non-Leon County students or parents whose data was on their server. And an even more complete update here. Leon County Schools superintendent blasts FLVS.
Used Tesco for your travel cash in the past? Your personal details may have been hit by a data leak at its provider Travelex
Lee Boyce reports: Travellers who have bought currency at Tesco in the past may have had their details leaked, This is Money can exclusively reveal. The service is run by currency giant Travelex for orders made over the telephone and online. It confirmed 17,000 Tesco Travel Money customers have had personal information stolen, including full…
Colorado Legislature Signals That It May Create More Stringent Data Destruction Regulations and Tighten Breach Reporting Requirements
Sammantha Tillotson and Casie Collignon of BakerHostetler write: In January 2018, Colorado legislators sponsored a bill that, if passed, will change the state’s existing data breach reporting laws in important ways. A House Committee Report detailing the current version of the bill can be found here. The bill would create a new statute, C.R.S. §…