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DATA BREACH AT COLLECTION AGENCY EXPOSES PERSONAL INFORMATION OF 12 MILLION PEOPLE
- A data breach at a collection agency has exposed the personal information — including credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and Social Security numbers — of nearly 12 million patients of Quest Diagnostics, the lab company announced yesterday.
JUDGE FOLLOWS SIMILAR PATH, DENIES MTD IN FDCPA CASE OVER STATUTORY DISPUTE NOTICE IN LETTER
- Following the same path she has already blazed, a District Court judge in New Jersey has denied a motion to dismiss filed by a defendant that was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not explicitly state that a dispute must be filed in writing, even thought it used the statutory language from the FDCPA itself.
ADVOCATES SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT COLLECTIONS IN MEETING WITH CFPB LEADERSHIP
- Consumer advocates raised a host of concerns related to the proposed debt collection rule and collections in general in a meeting with leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including issues with call caps, not cooperating with credit counseling agencies, and a possible increase in the number of bankruptcy filings.
JUDGE DENIES MSJ IN FDCPA CASE BECAUSE LETTER WAS SENT ONE DAY BEFORE DEFENDANT LEARNED OF BK FILING
- A District Court judge in Ohio has denied a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending a collection letter three days after an individual filed for bankruptcy protection and one day before it was notified of the filing.
NORDIS TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES NEW HIRES
- Nordis Technologies, an innovative customer communications management (CCM) and electronic bill presentment and payments (EBPP) solutions company, has recruited Paola Buitron-Bouw as its corporate counsel and compliance officer and Leana Maharaj as director of accounting and has promoted Lesster Maspoch to vice president of application development.
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The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.