We wrote about Wendy’s investigation into a data breach at its chain restaurants at the beginning of January, and now Wendy’s faces a class action over that same breach. The suit claims that Wendy’s negligently exposed customers’ credit card information and lead plaintiff, Jonathan Torres, claims that hackers used his stolen credit card information, to
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Wendy’s investigating potential credit card breaches
By Kathleen Dion on
Posted in Data Breach
Wendy’s may be the latest in a number of companies with Central Ohio operations that have suffered data breaches in recent years. On January 27, Wendy’s announced that it hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate claims of a possible credit card breach at some of its locations. Initially, the company was notified by its payment…
Michael’s Stores class action data breach case dismissed
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Michael’s Stores, Inc. was dismissed from a putative data breach class action case involving the breach of 2.6 million payment cards as the plaintiffs were unable to show that they were injured as a result of the incident.
The case follows a long list of cases that hold that plaintiffs in data breach cases do…
Data breach class action dismissed against SuperValu for lack of standing
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Breach
Last week, a Minnesota court ruled that a consolidated class action filed against SuperValu retail chain failed to assert any harm, finding that while SuperValu did suffer two data breaches, the class’s claims of possible future injuries were too speculative, and the class therefore lacked standing to sue. The data breaches occurred in 2014 at…
University of Washington Medical School pays OCR $750,000 for data breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Monday, December 14, 2014, that it has settled a HIPAA investigation with the University of Washington Medical School involving a data breach in October of 2013.
The breach occurred when an employee in the billing office clicked on an email attachment that contained malware and exposed 90,000…
Privacy Tip #12 – Credit card safety during the holidays (use cash!)
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
‘Tis the season of shopping. Cyber-Monday has just passed and news flashes indicate that the total amount consumers purchased online on Monday will exceed $3 billion. Wow. All with credit cards.
We all use our credit cards more during the holidays than any other time of year. As a result, it is a prime time…
Dow Jones & Co. notifies 3,500 of data breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Uncategorized
Dow Jones & Co. has notified 3500 of its customers that their information was accessed by an unauthorized individual in a data breach that spanned from August 2012 through July 2015.
The unauthorized access, through malware, exposed the names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and credit card information of 3,500 subscribers, including subscribers to The…
Target and Visa reach $67M settlement
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Visa, Inc. announced on August 18th that it has reached a settlement with Target for $67 million to reimburse Visa for costs associated with the Target data breach in late 2013, including issuing millions of new cards to affected consumers.
Target was unable to reach a similar proposed settlement with MasterCard (view related posts Proposed…
OPM update: OPM hit with another class action suit—this one filed by a Judge
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach, Enforcement + Litigation
Ho hum. Another class action filed against OPM for its massive data breach. The interesting fact here? The suit’s named plaintiff is a Judge with the Social Security Administration. On Friday, August 7, Social Security Administration Judge Teresa J. McGarry hit the OPM with its latest proposed class action suit alleging that OPM was aware…
United Airlines suffers network breach—same hackers as OPM suspected—dark motives
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
United Airlines has confirmed that it has suffered a data and network breach that occurred during the same time frame as the OPM breach. Investigators suspect the same Chinese state-sponsored hackers are responsible for both breaches. One theory being advanced about the connection between the two breaches is that the Chinese state-sponsored hackers are targeting…