Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Eddie Bauer announced on August 18 that it is the latest retailer who has become a victim of a “sophisticated” cyber intrusion that has all of the cash registers in the 350 Eddie Bauer stores throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The malware compromised the point-of-sale system and compromised the names, credit and debit card numbers,…
This tax season, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been working closely with big tax preparation vendors and chains to improve the security this year and safeguard against widespread identity theft. The IRS is now requiring stricter password standards, a new timed lockout feature and limited unsuccessful log-in attempts, along with three security questions. The…
A lab tech working at a Las Vegas pediatric cardiology practice has been indicted on one count of illegal use and disclosure of patient health information and one count of aggravated identity theft. The lab tech had previously been convicted of Medicaid fraud for submitting false Medicaid claims and was sentenced to serve 12 to…
A California federal judge has ruled that a former Uber driver who is suing Uber in a proposed class action case was unable to show that he suffered an immediate threat of identity theft and dismissed the driver’s first amended complaint.
The driver alleges that Uber failed to keep his personal information, and that of…
The federal government has arrested 32 members of the Insane Crip gang and charged them with 283 counts of criminal conspiracy, 299 counts of identity theft, 226 counts of grand theft and 58 counts of attempted theft through a $14.3 million identity theft and tax fraud scheme of filing fraudulent tax returns.
Millions of Americans…
The luck of the Irish was not with Premera Blue Cross’s (Premera) on St. Patrick’s Day, when the health insurer announced a breach of approximately 11 million of its members’ personal information due to a sophisticated cyberattack that started in May 2014. According to Premera, cyber hackers gained access to Premera’s member information through its…
On Tuesday, P.F. Chang’s Chinese Bistro, Inc. (P.F. Chang’s) gave the public access to the brief it recently filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals asking the Court to affirm the lower Court’s dismissal of a proposed class action against it for the massive data breach it experienced last year.
P.F. Chang’s argued…
