A lawsuit was filed in San Jose, CA, on June 15, 2012, seeking class action status against LinkedIn, Corp., stemming from the recent data breach of user passwords that ended up on a Russian Internet forum. The lawsuit filed by a Chicago-based attorney, Ms. Katie Szpyrka, accuses LinkedIn of deceiving its customers and for failing to implement […]
Documents filed in federal court regarding the January data breach of Amazon.com subsidiary, Zappos.com, shows the online shoe retailer’s data security team had detected the cyber-intruder while the hack was in progress. Zappos.com team members were able to thwart the breach before critical customer data was stolen, but the damage to its brand reputation continues to […]
The online shoe seller Zappos.com sent me an email notification today informing me that my credit card and payment information was compromised on its website. According to reports by the Associated Press, 24 million accounts were hacked into by a outside party. To prevent further exposure to my credit history, the company has urged all of […]