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American Airlines and Sabre Suffer Hacks

Data breaches have moved from the financial industry, to the healthcare industry, and in a matter of months hackers seem focused on the travel industry now. United Airlines announced a data breach that was linked by some to the same group of Chinese hackers that…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 12 Aug 2015

China Implicated in United Hack

Chinese hackers have been implicated again in another cyber attack on US Soil, this time with the United Airlines hack. The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 3 Aug 2015

Should the US Blame China Publicly for OPM Breach

It has been well-known now that in April 2015, the Office of Personnel Management suffered a data breach of millions of government employees’ and contractors’ personal information. Since that time, the Director of OPM has stepped down, and the government has begun to send notices…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 28 Jul 2015

Is Your Car a Privacy Leak

Imagine driving down the highway and all of a sudden your radio – magically! – starts changing its own channel. Then, your wipers go. You chuckle. However, then your GPS system tells you that you are in a far away land from your true location,…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 23 Jul 2015

CVS Photo Latest Data Breach

The latest data breach seems to have come from CVS Photo online and currently the site is offline. The offline site now states: We have been made aware that customer credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 19 Jul 2015

Is Google Photos Deceiving Consumers

The Assistant News Editor at Upstart Business Journal recently noticed something unexpected about the way the Google Photos App worked on his smart phone. The News Editor had previously decided that he didn’t want Google Photos auto-uploading pictures he took on his phone to the…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 17 Jul 2015

Consumer Watchdog Files Complaint Against Google

The non-profit consumer advocate Consumer Watchdog filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission regarding Google’s search engine practices. Google’s failure to offer U.S. users the ability to request the removal of search engine links from their name to information that is inadequate, i

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 7 Jul 2015

Hershey Park Data Breach

Hershey Park in Pennsylvania has announced that it believes it has suffered a data breach related to credit and debit cards that had been used throughout the park. “We have received reports from some of our guests that fraud charges appeared on their payment cards…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 1 Jul 2015

Investigation Continues of Missing Link Data Breach

Wine enthusiasts seem to be suddenly alerted to the news of the Missing Link Data Breach. As we stated recently, Missing Link seems to be following the response playbook that downplays the sensitivity of the data lost claiming the hackers “did not have access to…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 16 Jun 2015

Follow up to Winery Data Breach

The data breach that we reported on a day ago and affected Patz and Hall winery seems to be more widespread due to the origin of it at a third party vendor called Missing Link Networks. At this point, it appears numerous Northern California wineries…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 11 Jun 2015

Carefirst Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Information

Yesterday we wrote about the Patz & Hall data breach which resulted in unauthorized access of consumer credit card numbers. Yesterday, the first class action related to another data breach was filed by Paulson and Nace. In June of 2014, Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield was targeted…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 11 Jun 2015

Data Breach Hits Patz and Hall

It seems the news is covering a new data breach nearly every week these days. Whether its the Anthem Blue Cross breach, the Target breach, or the most recent health insurance breach of Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield, companies seem to be having difficulty protecting the vast…

By Christopher T. Nace

/ 10 Jun 2015