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Medical Center Rebuilding EMR Following Ransomware Attack -
Queen Creek Medical Center (QCMC), also known as Desert Wells Family Medicine, located in Arizona, has notified up to 35,000 patients of a data...more
9/17/2021
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Right of Access
FabFitFun, a fashion and beauty subscription service, settled claims that it failed to adequately protect and secure consumer data resulting in a data breach for a sum of $625,000 in the U.S. District Court for the Central...more
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FBI Warns of Hive Ransomware Following Attack Against Hospital System -
On August 25, 2021, the FBI issued a Flash Alert to warn companies, especially in the health care industry, about the proliferation...more
9/3/2021
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
FBI ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
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Maritime Transport ,
Mobile Apps ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Surveillance ,
WhatsApp
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Emerging Ransomware Groups Getting into the Action -
According to a report issued on August 24, 2021, by Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks Ransomware Groups to Watch: Emerging Threats, four emerging ransomware...more
8/27/2021
/ COPPA ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
FCC ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
TCPA
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T-Mobile Clarifies Facts of Security Incident in Press Release -
There has been a flurry of reporting in the past few days on the T-Mobile customer data compromise, with allegations that the compromise...more
8/24/2021
/ Baby Products ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Class Action ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Hackers ,
Information Governance ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Smart Devices ,
T-Mobile ,
Vulnerability Assessments
This week, a proposed data breach class action against Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc. was settled for $2.35 million in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas with approval of the settlement terms by...more
8/20/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Class Action ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Statutory Violations ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
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Cryptoheister(s) Return Stolen Booty -
Cryptocurrency platform Poly Network, which allows users to swap different types of digital tokens, was the victim of a cryptoheist that resulted in the thief...more
8/13/2021
/ Agribusiness ,
COPPA ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Dark Web ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware
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Law Enforcement Takes Down DoubleVPN -
I love seeing another win for law enforcement in the cyber context. Servers and web domains owned by DoubleVPN, a virtual private network, were seized recently...more
7/2/2021
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Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Microsoft ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Scams ,
Volkswagen
This week, Volkswagen AG’s U.S. entity and its Audi brand were hit with a class action for a data breach that allegedly compromised 3.3 million consumers’ personal information. ...more
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Fertility Clinic in Georgia Notifies Patients of Data Breach -
Reproductive Biology Associates, LLC (RBA) and its affiliate, MyEggBank, notified approximately 38,000 patients that a data breach...more
Last week, Impact MHC, a Colorado-based mobile home park management company, agreed to pay $25,000 to the Colorado Attorney General’s office and implement new security measures after a data breach of more than 15,000...more
Lifespace Communities (Lifespace) Inc., a retirement community chain with more than 15 communities in eight states, recently settled a class action for $987,850 for its alleged violation of the Illinois Biometric Information...more
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Coveware Q1 2021 Report Shows Increase in Ransomware Payments Over Q4 2020 Coveware issued its Q1 2021 -
Ransomware Report on April 26, 2021, which concludes that “[D]ata exfiltration extortion continues...more
5/7/2021
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Contact Tracing ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Girl Scouts ,
Kroger ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware
In Gates v. Eagle Family Foods in the Northern District of Illinois, Gregory Gates, a former sanitation and assembly line employee, alleges that Eagle Foods collected and retained his handprints without consent as part...more
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Eversource Energy Notifies Customers of Data Breach -
Eversource Energy, which is the largest energy supplier in New England with 4.3 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New...more
4/30/2021
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Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
iPhone ,
NYDFS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
SolarWinds
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NSA Issues New Warning About Four Critical Patches to Microsoft Exchange Servers -
The National Security Agency (NSA) recently issued a warning to private industry about four zero-day vulnerabilities in...more
4/23/2021
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Drones ,
Facebook Inc v Duguid ,
Hackers ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
NBA ,
NYDFS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
SCOTUS
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Cisco/Talos Researchers Find Attackers Using Slack and Discord to Distribute Malware -
Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos...more
4/16/2021
/ Automatic License Plate Readers ,
Biometric Information ,
Cisco ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Microsoft ,
Mobile Apps ,
NAIC ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information
North American IT company Presidio faces a proposed data breach class action by an employee for an incident involving employee data. Eric LaPrairie, a former Presidio employee, received a notice of a data breach from...more
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FBI and DHS/CISA Issue Joint Alert on Mamba Ransomware -
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) recently issued a joint alert with the Department of Homeland Security/Cybersecurity Infrastructure and...more
4/9/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
DMV ,
FBI ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Malware ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware
The California Attorney General recently approved modified regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). One part of the modified regulations bans “dark patterns” on a website. What are dark patterns?...more
4/9/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Information Governance ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
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GAO Report Identifies Need for DOE to Address Risks to Electrical Distribution System -
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently completed and published a study on electricity...more
4/2/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Email ,
FBI ,
GAO ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Infrastructure ,
OCR ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Right of Access ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Wal-Mart
Gardiner v. Walmart provided some guidance as to the specificity required to state a claim under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the types of damages that may be recoverable for breaches of California consumer...more
4/2/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Dark Web ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Policy ,
Terms of Use ,
Wal-Mart ,
Websites
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$50 Million Ransom Demand is Largest Ever -
In what is being reported as the largest ransom demand ever, Taiwanese electronics and computer manufacturer Acer has reportedly been hit with a ransomware...more
3/26/2021
/ Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Facebook ,
Hackers ,
Honeywell International ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Vaccinations ,
Vulnerability Assessments
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Microsoft Releases Additional Resources for Exchange Flaws and CISA Issues Alert -
As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is...more
3/12/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Hackers ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Microsoft ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Preemption ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Surveillance ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Wal-Mart
A new commercial has hit the airwaves in Israel. It begins with a door swinging open to reveal a beautiful seaside patio with a couple awaiting their dinners as a voiceover says, “How much have we missed going out with...more