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Court Confirms Kentucky Consumer Protection Act Doesn’t Cover Employees, But Legal Risks Remain: 5 Steps for Employers to Avoid...

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A federal district court recently found that employees aren’t protected by Kentucky’s consumer protection law because they don’t qualify as consumers, handing a solid win to employers. The April 21 decision in Viviali v. One...more

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[Webinar] 2022 WORKing Lunch Series: Protecting Your (Human) Resources: Fighting Business Email Compromise and Ransomware -...

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HR employees are, willingly or not, the guardians of the company’s most sensitive collection of data—its employee’s personal information. Cybercriminals often perceive the human resources department as the perfect gateway...more

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In the World of Ransomware Attacks, Déjà Vu Seems to be the New Normal for Employers

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Pick the date and news publication. After a few flips of the pages (or a scroll of the mouse), you’ll no doubt find an article about “ABC Company” reeling from a ransomware attack. This proliferation of cyberattacks is all...more

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Cybersecurity Insurance: Does Our Business Need It?

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By now, we are all too familiar with the issues and pitfalls associated with cybersecurity breaches in a multitude of industries. Consider Equifax, Home Depot, Yahoo or Target, to name a few. Those well-publicized incidents...more

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Don’t Take the Bait! “Spear Phishing” and “Whaling” Take Scams to the Next Level

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For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more

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Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

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Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Employers Have an Affirmative Duty to Protect Workers’ Personal Data from Cybercriminals:...

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In a landmark decision with far-reaching implication, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have an affirmative duty to protect their employees’ personal information from criminal hacking. In particular,...more

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Recent Amendments to Security Breach Notification Laws Further Complicate Breach Notification for Employers

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It is not a matter of "if" but "when" an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach.  Forty-seven states require employers to notify employees when defined categories of personal information, including...more

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Massachusetts Appeals Court Set to Consider Scope of Employer Liability for Employee Data Breaches

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Many of the highest-profile and headline-catching data breaches involve external breaches of a company’s electronic systems. But the reality that these headlines obscure is the fact that internal data breaches are generally...more

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