Maybe customers are harmed by a breach?
Christina Davis reports:
Neiman Marcus Group LLC has lost a bid to toss a class action alleging that the retail clothing chain’s negligence caused a massive data security breach and then hid the problem right before the holiday shopping season in 2013.
The Neiman Marcus class action lawsuit was filed by Hilary Remijas on behalf of consumers affected by the alleged breach.
The Neiman Marcus data breach class action lawsuit
had landed back in district court after a somewhat surprising – but
welcome – Seventh Circuit ruling reinstated
the lawsuit in July, 2015. The court subsequently denied Neiman
Marcus’s request for an en banc review of the ruling. Now
back in district court, the retailer argued that the claims should
still be dismissed because the injuries did not demonstrate
negligence. As Davis reports:
The plaintiffs contended, in turn, that the Seventh Circuit had found that whether or not Neiman Marcus consumers had been reimbursed by their financial institutions for charges resulting from the data breach was factual and could not be dismissed. Additionally, the plaintiffs pointed out that at a minimum, the proposed class had claims based on the amount of time spent dealing with potentially fraudulent charges.
Judge Zagel agreed with the plaintiffs and refused to dismiss the Neiman Marcus class action lawsuit. Judge Zagel stated that dismissal of the lawsuit was “not appropriate at this time.”
So this hasn’t been a great month for Neiman
Marcus, who just disclosed this week that they experienced another
breach on December 26, 2015 that impacted over 700 California
residents (and an unknown total number of consumers).
Neiman Marcus reported that the websites of their
Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf
Goodman, Horchow, Last Call, and CUSP stores were hit
with automated attacks trying various login combinations. The firm
suspects that the attackers may have been using login credentials
acquired in other hacks of other entities. In some cases, the
attackers were able to access customer accounts (but not full credit
card numbers or PIN numbers) and make purchases. Neiman Marcus has
credited/restored all accounts. Neiman Marcus reports
that its defenses were able to successfully repel about 99% of the
attacks.
It's not just ads for video games and pizza.
How
Facebook tracks and profits from voters in a $10bn US election
… Facebook, which told investors on Wednesday
it was “excited about the targeting”, does not let candidates
track individual users. But it does now allow presidential campaigns
to upload their massive email lists and voter files – which contain
political habits, real names, home addresses and phone numbers – to
the company’s advertising network. The company will then match
real-life voters with their Facebook accounts, which follow
individuals as they move across congressional districts and are
filled with insightful data.
… In Iowa, the Cruz campaign is using Facebook
to target voters on a range of broad issues like immigration controls
to niche specific causes such as abolishing state laws against the
sale of fireworks. The Guardian understands the campaign has built a
specific model for this relatively small group of voters, who may be
responsive to Cruz ads against big government, and in some cases is
going out to find them individually.
Political scientists, current campaign advisors
and former digital gurus to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree: a
Facebook ad is perhaps the best money to spend in what
could be a nearly $10bn election, and 2016 is fast becoming the year
Facebook learned to profit from how you vote.
(Related) It's not just Facebook.
Caidan Cowger writes:
Across social media, pictures of “Voting Violation” mailers issued by the Cruz campaign have been circulating.
The mailers include the party affiliation of the resident, along with their regularity grade of caucusing.
Labeled in all capital letters, one side of the card read, “ELECTION ALERT,” “VOTER VIOLATION,” “PUBLIC RECORD,” and “FURTHER ACTION NEEDED.”
On the other side, in red letters at the top, the mailer said, “VOTING VIOLATION.” The text then reads:
“You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors’ are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday’s caucuses.”
Below, the letter listed the neighbors of the resident, along with their voting record, attempting to shame them in their own neighborhood.
Many have questioned the authenticity of these shaming letters; however, the Cruz campaign has confirmed that these mailers were real.
Read more on Cowgernation.
...as I've been saying… This will certainly
change if Hillary fails in the early voting. Right now, everyone is
worried that they might get on the enemies list of the next
President.
State, the Associated Press reports, won’t
release 22 of Clinton’s messages to the public because they contain
too much most-secret information.
OK: Clinton’s only promised that none of her
e-mails were labeled “classified” — so she’s
technically not a blatant liar.
… But State’s not done: Last week, it
declared that the winter storm would cause a delay — conveniently
until after Monday’s Iowa caucuses.
And this week, State added another delay:
It got a late start in getting clearances from various intelligence
agencies, so it now won’t finish until Feb. 29 — after the New
Hampshire and South Carolina primaries.
By holding the “top secret” e-mails on her
home-brew server, Clinton should be looking at 22 criminal counts.
But her campaign is claiming she’s just a victim — of
bureaucratic overclassification.
Funny: Hillary’s staffers should have no way of
knowing if that’s so — unless she let them view the e-mails,
which would be another crime.
At a
minimum, there’s this: In just 11 months, the Clinton camp’s
defense has gone from claiming “no classified” material was ever
on her private server to insisting nothing “marked” classified
was there to telling America that, well, it’s all “overclassified.”
Not that Team Hillary is alone in
lame-denial-land. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said
Friday that the FBI’s investigation “does not seem to be . . .
trending” in the direction of an indictment.
How the heck would he know? No one in the White
House should be privy to what’s going on in this Justice Department
probe.
Unless, of course, information is being illegally
leaked . . .
To sum up: Hillary Clinton’s defense of her
conduct is now reduced to technicalities; the State Department looks
to be slow-walking the release of her e-mails with an eye on the
campaign calendar — and the White House seems to know a bit too
much about an unfolding investigation.
It’s
almost like a coordinated coverup
Perspective. Why not the government?
Tenders
invited for 4G mobile network
The Mexican government
took a major step yesterday towards connecting most of the country
with its invitation to bid on a wholesale mobile network.
… Providing such
coverage for 85% of the population is expected to require an
investment of US $3.5 billion.
… Companies that
have expressed interest in participating in the wholesale market
include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Cisco Systems, Huawei, Nokia, China
Telecom, Motorola Solutions and Alestra.
… The firm with the
best proposal will be granted a 20-year public-private partnership to
build an LTE network. Mobile operators and mobile virtual network
operators (MVNOs) will then be able to rent
capacity on that network.
Hope springs eternal.
CIA Posts
New Documents Titled Take a Peek Into Our “X-Files”
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jan 30, 2016
“The CIA declassified hundreds of documents in
1978 detailing the Agency’s investigations into Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFOs). The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and
1950s. To help navigate the vast amount of data contained in our
FOIA
UFO collection, we’ve decided to highlight a few documents both
skeptics and believers will find interesting. Below you will find
five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder
would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of
extraterrestrial activity. We also pulled five documents we think
his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is
a scientific explanation for UFO sightings. The truth is out there;
click
on the links to find it.”
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