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Different Degrees of Breach Response
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:57:24 -0500
This is promising on the Data Loss front. Until now, every class action I've seen was thrown out because members could not prove a loss, which meant they could not even purchase credit monitoring. Different Degrees of Breach Response, http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=4360 The key message from the recent court ruling on the Hannaford data breach: You don't have to suffer fraud to be a victim. A federal appeals court recently ruled in favor of victims of the 2007 Hannaford data breach. According to this ruling, some victims of the Hannaford payment card breach can sue for damages resulting from the costs of card replacement, theft insurance and other "reasonable" mitigation efforts. This decision partially overturns a district court ruling that dismissed 26 individual lawsuits against Hannaford, a northeastern U.S. grocery chain. In all, roughly 4.2 million accounts were compromised and 1800 cases of fraud were reported as a result of the breach, which was masterminded by convicted fraudster Albert Gonzalez, who currently is imprisoned after pleading guilty to several crimes, including the Heartland Payment Systems breach. ... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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