Data Security, Employee Misconduct

How to Handle Internal Investigations: Different Tactics for Different Triggers

Hanzo on 4/18/2025

Internal investigations often start small. A complaint, a suspicious transaction, or a red flag in a routine audit. Most companies try to manage these issues internally, without specialized tools or external legal support....more

For Many, 'There Is a Price': Multipronged Efforts Needed to Thwart HIPAA Violators

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/15/2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 9 (September 2020) - The fact that people are the weakest link in compliance is a truism in the privacy and security world. But just how weak is this link, and how likely is it that...more

Frequency and Cost of Insider Threats Continue to Increase

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/12/2020

The Ponemon Institute recently issued its 2020 Cost of insider Threats Global Report, which finds that the frequency and cost of insider threats is continued to increase. Sponsored by ObserveIT and IBM, the 2020 report is the...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2020

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/15/2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 1 (January 2020) - ? A cybersecurity breach temporarily halted cancer radiation treatment services at the Cancer Center of Hawaii on Oahu,[1] the center said. The center, which provides...more

The Data Breach “Blame Game” – Employer or Employee Liability

Epiq on 8/21/2019

Data security and privacy is a hot global topic right now. New laws that closely regulate data security practices seem to be popping up everywhere in order to account for all of the data people transmit electronically daily....more

Employer vicariously liable for rogue employee’s data breach

A&O Shearman on 11/30/2018

An employer was held by the Court of Appeal to be vicariously liable for a rogue employee’s deliberate and criminal disclosure of the personal data of other employees. This was despite the employee’s aim being to harm the...more

Supermarket Held Vicariously Liable in UK’s First Data Leak Class Action

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/14/2018

UK supermarket chain Morrisons has been held vicariously liable for the acts of a malicious employee in the UK’s first data leak class action. The issue began in 2014, when a disgruntled Morrison’s internal IT auditor posted...more

Key Considerations to Protect Against Insider Threats in Cybersecurity

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/30/2018

Most companies have strengthened their cybersecurity defenses against outside hackers, but many often neglect the equal threat posed by those within their network walls — employees who already have privileged access to...more

Privacy Tip #116 - Insider Error or Threat Continue to Cause Data Breaches

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/30/2017

You continue to hear that your employees are your biggest risk when it comes to causing a data breach. Recent incidents that we have been involved in that were caused by employee error include...more

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