Certegy Class Action | Hospital Records in Trash

Class Action Suit From Data Breach

A San Francisco law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Certegy Check Services and its parent company, Fidelity National Information Services Inc. The suit claims that Certegy "failed to implement and maintain adequate security measures to protect consumers' personal information."

Certegy provides check verification services and announced that a former employee had taken and sold 8.5 million consumer records. The company says it believes the records were only used for marketing purposes.

The suit was filed on behalf of the 8.5 million affected customers. The amount of the suit was not disclosed.

Hospital Records In the Trash

There were two stories of hospital records ending up in the trash this week. One was the now bankrupt Greater Detroit Hospital and the other was the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Protecting information databases are important but old fashioned paper still poses a risk to anyone with personal information.

Big Arrests this Week

There were two big arrests in the battle against identity theft. Not surprising is they both came from the former Soviet Union which is an important center for international rings involved in the crime.

Maksym Yastremskiy, a Ukrainian man was arrested in Turkey on suspicion of selling credit and debit card numbers stolen in the TJX data breach.

Igor Klopov, Russian man arrested in New York. Klopov was the alleged ring leader who mined the Internet to obtain victims' personal information. His targets were the Forbes 400 list. Four of his co-conspirators are also under arrest in Michigan, Texas, Florida, and Kentucky.

It is a great to report two wins for the good guys.