Amy Brown Doolittle of Squire Patton Boggs writes: As we have discussed here at CPW, one of the biggest challenges facing a plaintiff in a data breach class action is to establish an injury from the alleged data breach. Earlier this week, in David De Midicis v. Ally Bank & Ally Fin., Inc., 2022 U.S. Dist....
Randy Wimbley and David Komer report: …. It’s what Weldon. a Detroit retiree, stumbled upon Wednesday morning after setting up her account on the City of Detroit retirement system’s new online program. “I saw several links called lists, and I clicked on one – and it was my name and this first list was...
Emma Crabtree reports: The Chancellor’s bin bags were placed outside his private apartment and torn open by foxes, leaving the documents open in public. Multiple news sources have since criticised the German leader for using such a careless disposal method. Read more at Express. The documents were unshredded and just bagged and binned, it...
Debbie Worthen reports: Hundreds of students’ personal information was potentially compromised in what the Tooele County School District called a “technical problem” as the district switched from Aspire to Skyward. Skyward is a software company specializing in K-12 school management. It includes student records and personal information. This week, families of the over 21,000...
Mikael Thalen reports Owned by the Japan-based company bajji, Feelyou is self-described as the first journaling and social mood tracking app. It allows users to share their feelings with others either publicly or anonymously. It’s tagline is, “It’s O.K. not to be O.K.” …. Up until last week, however, anyone could obtain the personal email addresses...
Recent decisions by the Data Protection Commissioner of Singapore include the following: Directions were issued to Crawfort Pte to conduct a security audit of its technical and administrative arrangements for its AWS S3 environment and rectify any security gaps identified in the audit report. This is pursuant to a data breach incident where Crawfort’s...
Jane Tang for RFA Mandarin reports: Ren, a U.S. citizen who has lived in China for decades, didn’t realize she was the victim of what could be the biggest data breach in Chinese history until she got a call from RFA. She held her breath as, one by one, her ID card number, date...
Zack Marzouk reports: Chinese authorities have reportedly called in Alibaba cloud executives for talks over the police database data breach that emerged at the start of July. Alibaba is carrying out an investigation of its own into how the data breach of over a billion people happened, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The breach, one...
Clement Ooi reports: The civil suit between local gaming products company Razer and IT solutions provider Capgemini began in Singapore’s High Court today (Jul 13) Last year, Razer discovered a cybersecurity breach that revealed that the personal information of about 100,000 Razer customers could have been exposed. While no sensitive data such as credit...
David Hannant reports: A college has vowed to investigate after the personal details of hundreds of its applicants were emailed to a single parent by mistake. In August last year, the parent of a City College Norwich student was in an email exchange with one of the college’s customer service team when she received...