A security lapse has exposed the data of at least 13.7 million user records of the high-end job recruitment site, Ladders. The company left a cloud-hosted search database exposed without a password. Ladders took the database offline less than an hour after the news website TechCrunch alerted the company after learning about the potential breach
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Use Of Personal Cloud-Based Document Accounts Requires New Strategies By Employers
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Whether Google Docs, Dropbox, or some other file sharing system, employees, especially millennials and other digital natives, are increasingly likely to set up personal cloud-based document sharing and storage accounts for work purposes, usually with well-meaning intentions, such as convenience and flexibility. Sometimes this is done with explicit company approval, sometimes it is done with…
Fulbright’s Litigation Survey Addresses Privacy in the Age of Social Media and Mobile Devices
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Norton Rose Fulbright recently released the results of their 9th annual litigation trends survey. The Fulbright survey reflects information collected from 392 in-house attorneys; including 82% identifying themselves as general counsel and 14% as head of litigation. Additionally, the companies responding to the survey represent virtually all industries, include entities of all sizes, and…
Kentucky Enacts a Data Breach Notification Law and Protects Student Data in the Cloud
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear signed H.R. 232 on April 10, 2014, making the Commonwealth the 47th state to enact a data breach notification law. The law also limits how cloud service providers can use student data. A breach notification law in New Mexico may follow shortly.
Data Breach Notification Mandate
The Kentucky law follows the…