Samantha Bomkamp reports that the Seventh Circuit has done it again when it comes to allowing data breach lawsuits to go forward: A lawsuit over a 2014 data breach at P.F. Chang’s has been revived by an appeals court, which said two plaintiffs have shown enough evidence to pursue their claim. Two Illinois men, John…
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Court denies Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss claims arising out of point-of-sale data breach
Ryan M. Martin of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois recently denied the retail grocery chain Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss various claims arising from a December 2012 data breach in which hackers gained access to Schnucks’ credit/debit card processing systems. By mid-March 2013, both customers’ banks and Schnucks’…
Breach litigation standing — the bell tolls for Clapper
There have been a number of law firms blogging about the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in the Neiman Marcus lawsuit as a game-changer in data breach litigation. Here’s one commentary by Taylor Brooke Concannon and Peter Sloan of Husch Blackwell: For years, federal district courts have reliably dismissed data breach consumer class actions at the outset, citing the…
Illinois AG Madigan: Federal data breach law should not weaken states’ consumer protections
Following what has been termed “The Year of the Data Breach,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan today testified before the U.S. Senate, calling on Congress to enact a strong, meaningful federal data breach notification law that provides greater transparency for data breach victims and regulators to better understand what information was compromised in a breach, how…
Maryland state agencies hit by cyberattacks, records show
Capital News Service reports: Maryland government entities have suffered at least six cyberattacks since the beginning of 2013, according to incident reports from the Department of Information Technology. The heavily-redacted reports, obtained by Capital News Service through a Maryland Public Information Act request, reveal that data-hungry hackers and scammers aren’t only going after retailers like…
Vulnerabilities in Walmart App and Walgreens App
Domingo Guerra writes on Appthority: Recently Wal-Mart and Walgreens have both been noted to have security vulnerabilities connected to their mobile applications. Following recent revelations about the insufficient security of mobile apps from other major corporations, such as Target, Neiman Marcus, and Starbucks, it is clear that big company names are still struggling to iron out flaws in…