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Some Beach … Fiduciary Considerations As Recordkeeper Sued For Misusing 401(k) Participant Data

A proposed class action lawsuit filed against Empower last month highlights the importance for 401(k) plan fiduciaries to carefully negotiate their services agreements with recordkeepers and other services providers. The...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

UPDATE: Organizations Using the Salesloft Drift AI Chat Agent Must Check It for Compromise

On August 28th, Mandiant issued an update to its previous Salesloft Drift advisory. Therein, Mandiant discussed that Salesloft issued a security notification on Aug. 26 regarding its Drift application. At that time, it...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Salesforce Users: Organizations Using the Salesloft Drift AI Chat Agent with Salesforce Must Check Their Presence for Compromise

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Salesloft issued a security notification on August 26 regarding its Drift application. It appears to be a broad opportunistic attack on Salesloft/Drift instances integrated with Salesforce tenants. Salesloft issued updates...more

Carlton Fields

Enforcement of SEC Amendments to Regulation S-P: A Trump-Era Trompe L’oeil?

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On May 16, 2024, the SEC, under former Chair Gary Gensler, adopted sweeping amendments to Regulation S-P, which governs the privacy and data security of nonpublic consumer personal and financial information for a broad range...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Data breach litigation targets wine company: Lessons for alcohol industry players

On July 30, 2025, a wine producer was sued in connection with a cyberattack that allegedly compromised the data of at least 26,000 customers. Among other things, the complaint alleges that the company failed to implement...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Compliance Deadlines to Implement Significant Amendments to Regulation S-P Are Fast Approaching: Key Implications for Covered...

On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted sweeping amendments to Regulation S-P, which governs the privacy of nonpublic consumer personal and financial information for a broad range of financial...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Texas Law Requires Storage of Electronic Health Records in U.S.

Starting September 1, 2025, health care practitioners in Texas are required to store electronic health records in the United States under a new Act. This requirement is found in a recently enacted law that also includes...more

Fisher Phillips

Missouri Adopts New Data Breach Notice Law for Insurers – The 10 Things Insurers and Licensed Entities Need to Know

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As cybersecurity threats escalate, state legislatures across the country are tightening requirements for how insurance entities respond to data breaches – and thanks to a new law just passed several weeks ago, Missouri is...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

New PCI DSS 4.0 Credit Card Compliance Requirements Effective April 1, 2025

As of April 1, 2025, all merchants and third-party service providers (TPSPs) involved in processing credit or debit card payments must fully adhere to the enhanced security requirements outlined in the Payment Card Industry...more

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DOJ’s Data Export Rule Is In Force April 8: What You Need to Do

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On April 8, 2025, a sweeping rule issued by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will take effect. The rule imposes restrictions—and in some cases, outright prohibitions—on US companies in connection with certain types of data...more

Winstead PC

Top Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Considerations in 2025 for RIAs

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Compliance and Regulations - Ensure adherence to SEC regulations with appropriate privacy and cybersecurity policies tailored to SEC requirements....more

Bracewell LLP

FINRA Facts and Trends: November 2024

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Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This month,...more

Mayer Brown

Navigating Facilities Management Outsourcing in a Post-COVID World

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The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped the facilities management (FM) outsourcing landscape. Companies have transitioned from fully office-based work to home-based work, and now to hybrid models, prompting a...more

Epstein Becker & Green

In the Cloud: A Safe Place for Your Personal Data?

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As more organizations across industry sectors store personal data with cloud storage vendors— including the three largest vendors in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform—federal...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

DOL Echoes Employee Benefits and Cybersecurity Best Practices

On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) issued its first cybersecurity best practices guidance for retirement plans. The EBSA guidance was highly...more

BakerHostetler

Deeper Dive into the Data - May 2024

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Every spring, BakerHostetler collects, analyzes, and compares key metrics on the incident response matters we handled in the prior year. The output – our Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report – highlights key findings...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Actionable Advice When Sharing Client Data with Vendors

We’ve previously written on the need for law firms to scrutinize the data security protections in place at all third-party vendors who have access to client confidential information. Clearly, that’s still good advice....more

U.S. Legal Support

The Benefits of Medical Records Retrieval Outsourcing

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From cases involving car crashes to employee termination disputes, there are countless reasons for legal professionals to require access to a client’s medical, employment, financial, and other records. What’s more, these...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

The Pros And Cons Of Protecting AI As Trade Secrets

Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...more

WilmerHale

FTC Enters Consent Agreement With Blackbaud Following Major Data Breach

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On February 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or “the Commission”) announced that it had reached a settlement with Blackbaud, a software company, resolving claims related to a 2020 data breach that resulted in the...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI...

Q&A: Four State Data Privacy Compliance Insights for 2024

With the first month of 2024 now behind us, it is time for organizations to start seriously considering key comprehensive state data privacy compliance obligations for 2024. In total, seven states passed data privacy laws...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The Increasing Importance of Cybersecurity Readiness in the Municipal Bond Market: How Public Institutions Can Respond

In today's evolving world of security and data privacy, K-12 schools, universities, local governments, and hospitals are increasingly finding themselves on the same list: vulnerable to the threat of a cyberattack....more

BCLP

Data and Cybersecurity - European Union Legislation and Proposals - December 2023

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The pace of new EU law continues unabated, with IoT, cyber security and digital services being key areas of activity. The BCLP Data Privacy & Security team is tracking EU law developments relevant to data and cyber security....more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Upcoming EU Rules on Digital Operational Resilience

There will be additional compliance obligations and mandatory contractual provisions introduced for financial entities and outsourced IT service providers. The new DORA seeks to strengthen the resilience of financial...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Mount Desert Island Hospital Notifies 24,180 of Data Breach Involving Leaked Social Security Numbers

On June 30, 2023, Mount Desert Island Hospital (“MDIH”) filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights after discovering that an unauthorized party had gained...more

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