Different Degrees of Breach Response

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

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.

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