Month: June 2011

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SEGA Data Breach

SEGA is the latest victim in a long and seemingly unending string of information breaches. SEGA Pass was taken offline last Thursday after the breach was discovered. The hackers collected the personal information of SEGA’s 1.3 million users. This includes email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth and their encrypted passwords. In an email to…

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Abraham Watkins

Drilling Rig Accident in West Texas Kills Two Men

Just over a week ago, a drilling rig accident in Dawson County left two workers dead. The fatal workplace incident is currently being investigated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). On Saturday, June 11, two twenty-something workers died after sustaining serious head injuries when part of a drilling rig malfunctioned, and each man…

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Abraham Watkins

Supreme Court Reverses Jury Decision for Burned Child

A jury determined that a lighter which “badly burned” a six-year-old child was defective in its design and construction. Three years ago, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that her claim based upon the improper design of the lighter was “preempted” by federal testing requirements, even though courts in other states did not find that the…

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