New Mexico recently became the 48th state to enact a data breach notification law. This continues the accelerated pace of state data breach legislative activity in the last two years. Since 2015, at least 41 states have...more
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded a $10 million settlement in the Target data breach class action on the grounds that the district court had not rigorously analyzed the propriety of the class...more
2/3/2017
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Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Credit Cards ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Debit Cards ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Point of Sale Terminals ,
Popular ,
Settlement ,
Target
With tax season in full swing, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), state tax agencies, and tax industry groups recently renewed a warning about Form W-2 email spear-phishing scams.
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1/31/2017
/ Cyber Crimes ,
Email ,
Identity Theft ,
IRS ,
Payroll Records ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Social Security Numbers ,
Spoofing ,
Tax Fraud ,
W-2
The Colorado Supreme Court has joined a number of other federal and state courts in limiting the extent to which product manufacturers can be subjected to a state’s general personal jurisdiction, even when the manufacturer's...more
The latest development in how American courts will handle the standing question for data breach class actions came last week when the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed for lack of standing a putative...more
8/17/2016
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Blue Cross ,
Blue Shield ,
CareFirst ,
Class Action ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Identity Theft ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Standing
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has signed into law two bills implementing enhanced protections and obligations for entities handling student personally identifiable information and increasing state resources dedicated to...more