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Herb Stapleton's FBI Experience Proves to be Asset to Dinsmore's Corporate Team

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With Herb Stapleton’s recent arrival to the Firm’s corporate team, Dinsmore adds a powerful asset to help clients stay ahead of cyber threats…or manage the fallout when the worst happens. As a former FBI agent and Special...more

Alston & Bird

Top 10 Issues General Counsel Need to Know About Ransomware in 2024

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Threat actors are evolving. Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team explains how ransomware gangs have changed their tactics and how companies can respond to the threat while navigating new scrutiny from investors and...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Settles Allegations of Data Security Failures with Edtech Company Chegg

On October 31, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a complaint and proposed consent order against Chegg, an edtech company, over its security practices that resulted in four security breaches in three years....more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Riding the Wave of Cyber Insurance Claim Payments: A Trend Cresting or Crashing?

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Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Cyber criminals continue to exploit lax security measures, which have become more acute in the work-from-home environment, and hack into companies’ systems, encrypt their data, and then...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Sued for a Data Breach Out of State? Don't Forget a Personal Jurisdiction Defense

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Entities sued for a data breach – even one that is consolidated into a multidistrict litigation proceeding in the defendant’s home state – should not forget the personal jurisdiction defense, which can provide a powerful tool...more

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Department of the Treasury Issues New Advisory Regarding Ransomware Payments

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On September 21, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its Updated Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments (the “Updated Advisory”)....more

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[Virtual Event] 2021 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - February 26th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm AKST

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Cyber Criminals Concentrate on C-Suites

Verizon released its 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) on May 8th. The widely read annual report is considered a primary source for data breach trends, statistics and forecasts. This year’s report is based on data...more

Littler

Data Breach in the UK: Can a Rogue Employee Leave You on the Hook?

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A supermarket chain in the United Kingdom has been all over the press after it was held liable for a data breach by a rogue employee. This article analyzes the appellate court’s judgment to set out what it means for employers...more

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Data Breach Notification Coming to Canada

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The Government of Canada has announced that its proposed data breach notification requirements pursuant to the Digital Privacy Act (the “Act”) will take effect on November 1, 2018. The Act amends Canada’s Personal...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss all 50 states now having data breach notification laws, state attorneys general and their opposition to a federal data breach notification law, the FBI...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Cybersecurity 2018 – The Year In Preview: State Enforcement Trends

Editors’ Note: This is the fourth in a multi-part end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity during the coming year. Previous installments include analyses of HIPAA compliance, emerging...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - November 2017

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss a Washington state court decision allowing a data breach lawsuit to move forward on a negligence claim, a Ninth Circuit ruling regarding releasing...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Ponemon Institute Study on Costs of Data Breaches Highlights Improvement and New Risks for U.S. and Global Companies

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The average cost of a data breach, on both an aggregate and a per-record basis, has decreased slightly according to the Ponemon Institute's 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview. In addition to presenting recent...more

Carlton Fields

The Future of Standing in Data Breach Class Actions

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In today’s world, as technology costs decrease and personal information becomes more valuable on the black market, data breaches have seemingly joined the ranks of death and taxes as certainties. Add to that litigation:...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Cybersecurity 2017 – The Year In Preview: Trade Secret Theft Takes Center Stage

Editor’s Note: This is the first of an end-of-year series of posts examining coming trends in cybersecurity. Posts will examine trends in state regulations, federal regulatory authority, the changing nature of the threat...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Does Your Insurance Cover Phishing Attacks and Business Email Compromise? The Uncertainty Continues…

The coverage landscape for “Business E-mail Compromise” (BEC) scams remains somewhat tenuous, as organizations and carriers continue to battle in court over the extent of coverage. Although recent positive,...more

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Home Depot Challenges Banks’ Standing to Recover Losses Related to Data Breaches

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In the aftermath of major data breaches at deep-pocketed retailers and other businesses, there is typically no shortage of litigants who move quickly to seek compensation from the business at which the breach occurred. But...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

California Updates its Data Breach Notice Statute (Again)—What You Need to Know

On October 6, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation updating California’s data breach notice statute for the third time in three years.  The news was quickly overshadowed by the CJEU’s decision invalidating the...more

Perkins Coie

SEC’s Increased Cybersecurity Enforcement and How to Reduce Your Risks

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The SEC announced last week that an investment adviser had agreed to settle charges that it failed to take required steps to protect against and respond effectively to a cybersecurity breach. The action comes on the heels of...more

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Circuit Split on Standing in Data Breach Class Actions Survives Clapper

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Last Friday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied a retailer’s petition for rehearing en banc of a three-judge panel opinion holding that plaintiffs whose credit card information was stolen in a data breach had...more

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New Potential Liability for Data Security: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Announces FTC has Authority to Scrutinize a...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to scrutinize a business’s data security protocol -- and to file a complaint if the FTC finds that protocol...more

Carlton Fields

A Firewall for the Boardroom: Best Practices to Insulate Directors and Officers From Derivative Lawsuits and Related Regulatory...

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Shortly after the massive 2013 Target data breach, shareholders filed four derivative lawsuits against the company’s directors and some of its officers (13 CARE 624, 3/20/15). The shareholders alleged that the defendants had...more

K&L Gates LLP

Five Tips for Success in Cyber Insurance Litigation

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Many insurance coverage disputes can be, should be, and are settled without the need for litigation and its attendant costs and distractions. However, some disputes cannot be settled, and organizations are compelled to resort...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Should We Hack Back?

“No,” says U.S. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell. At the most recent Cybersecurity Law Institute held at Georgetown University Law Center in late May, the head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal...more

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