Volume III

Issue : 12: June 16, 2005

• OECD Issues Report on the Digital Music Industry
• Citigroup Loses Nearly Four Million Customers Data
• Ohio Attorney General Files Suit Over Customer Data Theft
• Online Casino Advertisement Case Continues
• Microsoft Caught in Patent Infringement Again
• U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Lexmarks Appeal
• US 6th Court Denies De Minimis Exception to Soundrecording Copyright Infringement
• Media Ban in Pickton Case Extends to Internet Broadcasting and URLs

Home > Volume III > Issue 12: June 16, 2005 > Ohio Attorney General Files Suit Over Customer Data Theft

Ohio Attorney General Files Suit Over Customer Data Theft

The Attorney General ("AG") of Ohio has asked a court to order the Ohio-based shoe retailer Designer Shoe Warehouse ("DSW") to directly notify in writing approximately 700,000 customers whose personal information may have been stolen from DSW's computers. Ohio is the first state to sue DSW over one of the biggest security breaches of its kind in the United States.

The personal information relates to consumer transactions from mid-November 2004 to mid-February of this year and includes credit card, debit card, chequing account and driver's licence numbers. The AG has repeatedly stated that "we see no reason why DSW, working with the credit card companies and the underlying issuing banks, cannot arrange for direct notification of every affected customer".

The Ohio Senate and House of Representatives have introduced bills that would require immediate notification to any person whose personal information had been compromised while held by a state agency, person, or business.

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