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AT&T Customer Data Resurfaces on Dark Web in Enhanced, Decrypted Format

HaystackID on 6/13/2025

According to an AT&T spokesperson, this is not accurate. Social Security Numbers and Dates of Birth were already available in plain text in the original compromised dataset from 2024 (in separate files that could be...more

Why It Matters Whether Hashed Passwords Are Personal Information Under U.S. Law

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/2/2021

On January 22, 2021, Bleeping Computer reported about yet another data dump by the hacker group Shiny Hunters, this time for a clothing retailer. Shiny Hunters is known for exfiltrating large databases of customer...more

Payment Card Data is Not Trade Secret Information under the DTSA

Holland & Knight LLP on 11/6/2018

In a recent case involving hackers that stole "payment card data" from Chipotle, Judge William J. Martinez in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado found on an issue of first impression that payment...more

Can You Survive Identity Theft?

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley on 7/20/2018

Identity Theft in the Digital and Physical Worlds - Common sense is the best defense against identity theft – creating strong passwords for online accounts and monitoring personal credit reports and credit card statements...more

Two More Circuits Find Data Breach Standing without Proof that Plaintiffs’ Data Was Misused

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 4/24/2018

Data breaches have become commonplace. Despite the best efforts of many, identity thieves and hackers always seem to find a new vulnerability somewhere in the system of virtually every company that conducts business online....more

Busy Data Breach Week

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/16/2018

Unfortunately, it was another busy data breach week. Here’s a summary of the major ones. Delta Airlines admitted in a statement that the payment card data of several hundred thousand customers may have been compromised by...more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update - Brazilian antitrust authorities adopt narrow approach to rate parity; Group segment moves to...

Foster Garvey PC on 4/9/2018

This week’s OTA & Travel Distribution Update for the week ending March 30, 2018 is below. This week’s Update features a heavy dose of OTA updates....more

Tougher Privacy and Data Security Protections Coming to North Carolina

Fisher Phillips on 1/25/2018

A bi-partisan privacy and data security bill, which will significantly impact companies with North Carolina employees, is in the works. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Appropriations Chairman of...more

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