Online retailer Play.com has been accused of leaking its customers’ email addresses to spammers. Many customers reported receiving a spam email yesterday, offering an Adobe Reader upgrade which requires registration and payment. Some of these emails were sent to unique email addresses that have only been used at play.com, suggesting that the spammer had access to…
Category: Breaches
All of East Chicago Public Library’s records on stolen drives
Wow. Steve Zabroski reports: East Chicago – Indiana State Police arrived at the East Chicago Public Library on Friday afternoon to investigate the reported theft of computer hard drives holding all the library’s records, but the library’s former director said nobody told him about missing equipment. Manuel “Manny” Montalvo was abruptly fired by library trustees…
Irish telecoms fined after pleading guilty to privacy breaches and violation of data protection laws
UPC, Vodafone, O2 and Eircom have pleaded guilty to breaching the Data Protection laws. The charges related to the making of unsolicited marketing phone calls and sending unsolicited marketing messages. The companies were ordered to pay almost €15,000 in fines between them. UPC was convicted of the largest number of offences and received the biggest…
Ex-Employee’s Blogs Can’t Be Stopped Absent Extraordinary Circumstances, New York Court Rules
Joseph Lazzarotti and John Snyder comment on Cambridge Who’s Who Publishing v. Sethi, a case recently covered on DataBreaches.net because of its reference to an alleged data breach that had never been reported in the media. Of significance to me, the court ruled that Cambridge Who’s Who could not get an injunction that would stop…