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3 Takeaways From Recent Cyberattacks On Healthcare Cos.

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Significant data breaches have affected major players in the healthcare industry in the last year, with the methods of attack being as diverse as the affected entities themselves. Originally published in Law360 - June 4,...more

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How Schools Should Respond to the PowerSchool Cyberattack

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The country’s largest provider of cloud-based education software for K-12 schools announced on January 7 that it fell victim to a massive data breach – which may lead to questions about the implications for your school....more

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[Webcast Transcript] From Breach to Insight: Incident Response & PII Recovery

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Editor’s Note: In this informative webcast, Christopher Wall, DPO and Special Counsel for Global Privacy and Forensics at HaystackID, moderates a compelling discussion titled “From Breach to Insight: Incident Response and PII...more

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FCC Expands Data Breach Notification Requirements

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The FCC has significantly expanded telecommunications carriers’ data breach notification and reporting obligations. Telecommunications carriers, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, and telecommunications...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Multistate Coalition of State Attorneys General Secures $49.5 Million from Cloud Company Blackbaud for 2020 Data Breach

State regulators across the country continue to increase their focus on cyber security and data privacy compliance and enforcement. For years, cloud company Blackbaud, a service provider to thousands of nonprofit enterprises,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12  (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

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A Checklist for Cyber Incident Response Communications

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Popular file transfer tool MOVEit’s recent data security vulnerability prompted many businesses to communicate, internally and externally, about the impact of the incident on its business. Originally published in Law360 -...more

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Don’t Gamble With Your Cybersecurity and Incident Response Plan: Lessons Learned from the Las Vegas Ransomware Attacks

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Typically, we beat the drum of the need to prepare for a data incident—anything from a full-blown ransomware attack to an employee accidently sharing data with the wrong person—by having your Incident Response Plan developed...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 3, March 2023

Amazon Sued for Not Telling New York Store Customers about Tracking Biometrics - “Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking...more

Woodruff Sawyer

What is a Data Breach? (And How Vulnerable is Your Business?)

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The landscape for preventing, responding to, and avoiding the fines and other costs associated with data breaches has changed in the last three years. Since the beginning of the pandemic, data breaches have been on the rise...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - New Jersey issued its third settlement in three months on state-level health care privacy and security laws, announcing that three cancer care providers would adopt new...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Time for a Check-Up: Updates in Data Breach Notification and Reporting

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As the onslaught of data breaches and ransomware attacks continues, state governments are grappling with ways to bolster the impact and reach of breach notification laws. All fifty states, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin...more

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To pay or not to pay: Another regulator weighs in on the decision to pay a ransom

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Ransomware victims face a nearly impossible decision: pay criminals holding their business hostage or refuse and face possible crippling consequences. This decision requires careful analysis of a number of considerations, and...more

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Cyber Criminals Now Have the Keys to Your "House"

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On Tuesday, December 8 one of the nation's leading cyber defense vendors (FireEye) announced it suffered a recent cyber-attack from a "highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security lead us to...more

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Not If But When: Cybercrime Targets Telework

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job to a telework position. As...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Cybersecurity: A Guide to Preparing for and Responding to a Breach

A cyber breach can have serious legal, financial, and reputational consequences for a company, as described in our previous post. As such, cybersecurity threats must be treated as business risks, not just a potential IT...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

Private Equity and Cybersecurity: A Guide to Preparing for and Responding to a Breach

A cyber breach can have serious legal, financial, and reputational consequences for a fund sponsor, as described in our previous post. As such, cybersecurity threats must be treated as business risks, not just a potential IT...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Powering Data Breach Response with AI: A Case Study

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The specter of a data breach is an unfortunate reality for anyone that uses a computer. Corporations are obviously large targets, with potentially thousands of employees doing things on computers. Some of those things are...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI Warns of Sharp Increase in Ransomware Attacks in Certain Sectors

The Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a public service announcement warning private companies about the increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting private industry....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Delaware and New Hampshire Join Growing List of States With New Insurance Data Security Laws

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Delaware (July 31, 2019) and New Hampshire (August 2, 2019) have become the latest states to add to the insurance cybersecurity landscape by enacting information security laws.  These laws come on the heels of Connecticut’s...more

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Is Your Organization Ready for the CCPA? The Importance of an Incident Response Guide

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With the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) set to take effect in January 2020, organizations should be hard at work preparing. That work includes data mapping, understanding the extent to which the organization sells...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

As Cyberattacks Rise, U.S. Business Readiness Falls

Two recent reports reflect that cyberattacks and resulting data breaches continue to threaten U.S. companies and public entities. The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report (April 23, 2019), compiled from a survey of more than 1,000...more

White & Case LLP

Cybersecurity and the UK legal landscape

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As businesses continue to digitise their assets and operations, the need to continually assess IT infrastructure and the technical measures in place to safeguard key information assets and data becomes ever more important....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Warns Registered Firms about Client Privacy and Data Security

• The SEC released a Risk Alert summarizing key areas in which it continues to see compliance deficiencies related to Regulation S-P, the primary SEC rule regarding privacy notices and safeguard policies of investment...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

The SEC Released A Risk Alert On Reg S-P, a/k/a How To Avoid A $1 Million Penalty

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I am hardly saying that SEC Regulation S-P is the sexiest of regulations. I mean, has any customer is history actually read one of those exciting statement stuffers that discloses in some dense font a BD’s privacy policy?...more

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