Registration is open for the next installment in the Mintz Levin Privacy & Security Group Wednesday Webinar series — This webinar, scheduled for Wednesday, February 25, will focus on privacy in the workplace. Our workplace is everywhere these days, which makes employment and privacy compliance even more challenging. Jen Rubin and Gauri Punjabi will discuss… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: LinkedIn
LinkedIn Password Theft Results in Class Action Lawsuit
Posted in Class Action Litigation, Data BreachWritten by Kevin McGinty Nearly as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning, the recent theft of 6.5 million LinkedIn user passwords has resulted in the filing of a class action lawsuit in a California federal court. In her complaint, a LinkedIn premium subscriber asserts claims on behalf of all LinkedIn users for… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Passwords Hacked – UPDATE
Posted in Data Breach4:44 PM — LinkedIn has confirmed reports of hacking – http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-passwords-compromised/ It’s time for a little password hygiene. ZDNet reports that a Russian organization claims to have downloaded over 6.4 million passwords from LinkedIn. They also report that some 300,000 of them may have already been accessed. LinkedIn has yet to confirm these details… Continue Reading
Some Social Networking Developments
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityIf you are a regular user of online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, you want to check out a new research paper by a couple of researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytech that points to some disturbing evidence of the “leakage” of personally identifiable information from the social networking sites… Continue Reading
