Hilton Domestic Operating Co., Inc. (Hilton) has agreed to pay the New York and Vermont Attorneys General $700,000 to settle allegations that they violated those state consumer protection and data breach notification laws when it failed to implement reasonable security measures to protect consumer data and for waiting nine months to notify consumers of a
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Job Seekers Beware! Data Hacked for up to 1.4 Million Illinois Residents Receiving Unemployment Benefits
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
The Illinois Department of Employment Security has revealed that somewhere between 1.2 million and 1.4 million Illinois residents who have received unemployment benefits from the State of Illinois have had their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers compromised through a hacking of its vendor’s database. The residents are those seeking jobs and using…
Feds identify security vulnerabilities in state healthcare exchange websites
By Benjamin Jensen on
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) examination of the state-run health insurance exchanges for California, Kentucky and Vermont identified inadequate security measures in place to protect consumers’ personal information. While state officials from Kentucky and California denied that any security breaches had occurred or that any personal data had been compromised as a result of the…
Computer fraud and abuse act update: Second Circuit sides with a narrower reading
By Kelly Sweeney on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
The controversy over what is a “computer crime” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is now settled for New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. In a case we have been watching on the blog for months, United States v. Valle, the Second Circuit held that the CFAA should be read narrowly.
The Court…