As if Wyndham didn’t have enough problems from a number of breaches it experienced a few years ago, it seems that they may have had an insider breach, too. In a report to the Maryland Attorney General dated March 12, Stratis Pridgeon, Group Vice President of Legal Services for Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. (which includes…
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Public Citizen and Chris Hoofnagle file amicus brief in FTC v. Wyndham
You can read their brief here. Their brief incorporates some of the issues I discussed in my previous blog entry on this case earlier today, and I’m glad to see it.
FTC Fires Back In Lawsuit Against Wyndham
Brent Kendall reports: The Federal Trade Commission is offering a strong defense of its powers to police cybersecurity practices against a challenge by Wyndham Worldwide Corp. We wrote about Wyndham’s challenge earlier this month in a case involving attacks by hackers on the hotel chain’s computer systems between 2008 and 2010. The FTC sued Wyndham last year…
FTC lawsuit against Wyndham moves to New Jersey
I haven’t read the court document yet, but Law360 alerts us that Wyndham won a round in court and succeeded in getting the FTC’s lawsuit moved to New Jersey from Arizona.
The FTC Fires Back Against Wyndham
I continue to look for coverage of the FTC lawsuit against Wyndham, a topic I’ve covered in a number of blog posts. I’m glad to see that my uploading some of the court documents may have encouraged or facilitated discussion. Adam M. Veness of Mintz Levin discusses the FTC’s response to Wyndham’s motion to dismiss:…
Industry piles on to support Wyndham’s motion to dismiss FTC complaint
This might be a good time to follow up on my previous coverage of the FTC complaint against Wyndham, and Wyndham’s motion to dismiss. As I noted previously, this is the first time that the FTC has faced an actual legal challenge to its authority to bring an action over data security. Since my last…