ZAPPOS HIT BY MASSIVE DATA BREACH
Zappos, an Amazon-owned online shoe and apparel outlet retailer, announced today that hackers accessed the personal information of potentially 24 million of its customers. The personal information...
View ArticleIf the Shoe Fits . . . File a Class Action? Zappos Data Breach Leads to Quick...
Less than 24 hours after the Zappos data breach was announced, a class action lawsuit was filed against Amazon.com (Zappos is owned by Amazon). The Complaint [pdf] purports to be asserted on behalf of...
View ArticleIs Cloud Computing Compatible With the FBI’s Data Security Rules?
We all know that if you want to do business with the government, you have to play by the rules. This includes law enforcement agencies seeking to access the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information...
View ArticleDATA BREACH LITIGATION: CREDIT MONITORING NOW OR FEDERAL LAWSUIT LATER
Three prominent academics recently published a research paper that analyzed data breach litigation throughout the United States. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1986461. The authors analyzed over 230 federal...
View ArticleCredit Card Transactions: A Data Breach Waiting to Happen
Last week, Global Payments, Inc., an electronic transactions processor for, among others, VISA and MasterCard, reported a large data breach. According to Global Payments, intruders obtained ”track...
View ArticleCREDIT CARD DATA SECURITY ISSUES RAISED ABOUT ROMNEY SUPER PAC IN WASHINGTON...
This morning a Washington Times newspaper article raised potential data security issues with the online credit card system used by Restore Our Future, a Mitt Romney Super PAC....
View ArticleMEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS BECOME VICTIMS OF AN ON LINE DATA BREACH
The Social Security numbers of 31 Army Medal of Honor recipients were accidentally posted on line by a Pentagon employee. The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the personal information...
View ArticleCredit/Debit Card Breach at Barnes & Noble Exposes Holes in Point of Sale...
Hackers gained access to credit card information from customers at 63 Barnes & Noble stores. Although the incident was first discovered in September, the FBI requested that Barnes & Noble...
View ArticleNATIONWIDE INSURANCE LATEST VICTIM OF A DATA BREACH
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company announced that part of its computer network has been hacked and that personal information effecting more than 1.1 million individuals has been stolen. The...
View ArticleState of the Cybersecurity Union — Obama’s Executive Order Aimed at Cyberattacks
“We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.” With those words, and just prior to his 2013 State of...
View ArticleSCHNUCKS IS THE LATEST SUPER MARKET CHAIN TO SUFFER AN EXTENSIVE DATA BREACH
Last month Schnucks supermarket chain announced that it had been the victim of a hacking and was investigating a data breach that lead to customer credit and debit cards being fraudulently...
View ArticleSCHNUCK’S MASSIVE DATA BREACH RESULTS IN SEVERAL CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS
As we reported last month, Schnucks super market stores announced a data breach in March that potentially effected 2.4 million debit and credit card users. News reports have indicated that as...
View ArticleChinese Military Hacking U.S. Businesses?
Computer Security firm, Mandiant Corp., recently released a comprehensive report [pdf] exposing cyber espionage by a specialized Chinese military unit. The 60 page study details 141 separate attacks...
View ArticleVideo Interview: What Companies Can Do to Protect Themselves from State...
Following up on his recent post concerning the Chinese military hacking United States companies, Eric Packel, Esq. was asked to speak with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN for more information on the matter. In...
View ArticleSCHNUCKS SUPERMARKET CHAIN REACHES PRELIMINARY CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT
Earlier this year we reported that Schnucks Markets, a Midwestern based supermarket chain, had suffered an extensive data breach. News reports indicated that 2.4 million customers’ personal...
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