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Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced a privacy and data security enforcement action against the online retail platform CafePress. The allegations in the FTC’s complaint read...

Get Permission Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine to resolve charges that the company illegally accessed an unnamed competitors computer system on at least 20 separate occasions, using stolen passwords to conduct a cyber espionage operation. Ticketmaster employees repeatedly used stolen login credentials to access the competitors computer system to collect business intelligence from 2013 to 2015, says Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme for the Eastern District of New...