From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Pembrokeshire County Council. This follows an incident where sensitive personal data relating to a number of individuals was not properly redacted from a response to a subject access request. On investigation the ICO discovered that although…
Category: Breaches
Minnesota District Court Dismisses Data Breach Class Action Against GameStop, Inc.
William M. Regan and Zachary D. Denver of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP write: The US District Court for the District of Minnesota recently dismissed a data breach class action against GameStop, Inc. and Sunrise Publications, Inc. (d/b/a Game Informer) for lack of constitutional standing because the named plaintiff did not allege injury in fact. Plaintiff…
LinkedIn to pay 800,000 premium users $1 each to settle class-action lawsuit
Alejandro Alba reports: LinkedIn might owe you a dollar. The professional social network will pay approximately 800,000 of its users $1.25 million-or $1 each-to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed LinkedIn failed to protect the passwords and information of its premium subscribers between March 2006 and June 2012. Read more on NY Daily News.
Sex, lies and debt potentially exposed by U.S. data hack
Arshad Mohammed and Joseph Menn report: When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate’s wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government. The disclosure last week that hackers had penetrated a database containing such…