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Tea Dating App Breach Reveals Major Data Privacy Gaps in Rapidly Growing Platforms

HaystackID on 8/8/2025

In July 2025, a 4chan user posted a simple Python script. Within hours, thousands of women’s driver’s licenses, selfies, and intimate conversations were spreading across the dark corners of the internet. The source? An app...more

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 7, July 2025

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/1/2025

Welcome to our seventh issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. What does the US GENIUS Act Mean for Stablecoins? “The White House categorically states it is a historic piece of legislation that...more

AI and Social Engineering Practice Tips

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on 7/29/2025

The hospitality industry faces mounting cybersecurity challenges as artificial intelligence (AI) enables increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks targeting hotels, resorts, and travel service providers. Threat...more

Cybersecurity challenges in the health care industry: Legal, regulatory, and risk considerations

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 7/28/2025

Health care remains one of the most targeted and vulnerable sectors when it comes to cyberattacks. In fact, a recent breach at a major health care analytics firm exposed the data of 5.4 million U.S. patients, making it one of...more

OCR Announces $800,000 HIPAA Settlement with Florida Health System

Rivkin Radler LLP on 7/3/2025

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced another settlement for alleged violations of HIPAA. OCR investigated BayCare Health System, which serves central Florida, after a...more

New SEC Cybersecurity Compliance Deadlines are Coming: What 5 Things Should Covered Institutions Do to Prepare?

Fisher Phillips on 6/30/2025

The SEC’s amended Regulation S-P, adopted last year, will soon enhance data privacy protections for broker-dealers, investment companies, registered investment advisors, and transfer agents. The updated rule requires these...more

Don’t Get Caught in Scattered Spider’s Web

McCarter & English, LLP on 6/19/2025

The cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is at it again, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. This criminal group is known to focus its cyber attacks on one sector at a time. Last spring, it was the retail...more

AT&T Customer Data Resurfaces on Dark Web in Enhanced, Decrypted Format

HaystackID on 6/13/2025

According to an AT&T spokesperson, this is not accurate. Social Security Numbers and Dates of Birth were already available in plain text in the original compromised dataset from 2024 (in separate files that could be...more

Overseas employees and contractors pose increased risks of data breach

Womble Bond Dickinson on 6/5/2025

As data breach litigation continues to increase, companies need to worry about a new point of vulnerability - overseas employees. Many large companies outsource customer services to India and other low-cost providers to take...more

China Monthly Data Protection Update: May 2025

Dacheng on 5/29/2025

This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for May. The following events merit special attention...more

CIPAC Disbandment and CISA 2015 Reauthorization: Recent Developments in the U.S. Cybersecurity Landscape

Ropes & Gray LLP on 5/5/2025

On March 7, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS,” “the agency”) disbanded the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (“CIPAC,” “the Council”), originally established in 2006 to facilitate...more

Inside CyberCX’s 2025 DFIR Report: MFA Failures and Espionage Risks Revealed

HaystackID on 4/30/2025

The DFIR 2025 Threat Report from CyberCX offers a firsthand view of how cyber adversaries adapted and accelerated their tactics in 2024. Covering incidents across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Europe, the report...more

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 4, April 2025

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/24/2025

Welcome to our fourth issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. Sector by Sector: How Data Breaches are Wrecking Bottom Lines - “Data...more

Medibank class action: navigating the legal privilege maze

A&O Shearman on 4/23/2025

Concerns about claims of legal professional privilege over third-party investigation reports produced in the course of responding to cyberattacks, and the extent to which such reports can be shielded from disclosure in legal...more

Courts Reject Theoretical Privacy Violations Due to Lack of Standing

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 4/22/2025

Courts across the country are becoming skeptical of data breach and web tracking claims that assert theoretical privacy violations without alleging any actual injury to the plaintiffs. Recent decisions underscore that courts...more

23andWho? The fate of your DNA data after the 23andMe bankruptcy

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 4/21/2025

Consumers have been trading their DNA for a personal genetic history lesson with 23andMe since 2007. The company has since become extremely popular and has collected a trove of genetic information relating to more than 14...more

State AGs and the FTC Warn of 23andMe Risks Following Bankruptcy Announcement

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/7/2025

Several state attorneys general (AGs) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have begun scrutinizing ancestry tracking company 23andMe following its recent announcement that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As part of...more

2024 Trends in First Circuit Class Actions

Pierce Atwood LLP on 3/27/2025

We are pleased to present our final 2024 update to the New England and First Circuit Class Action Tracker, which focuses on class action filings in state and federal courts within the boundaries of the First Circuit in New...more

2024 State AGs Year in Review

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/24/2025

In 2024, state attorneys general (State AGs) focused on a broad variety of areas and industries including, in particular, emerging industries such as artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy and social media protections....more

Malaysia imposes data breach reporting – what your business needs to know

Hogan Lovells on 3/24/2025

Malaysia issued a regulatory guideline for data breach notification in February 2025. This article discusses how the new regulation affects businesses in Malaysia. On 25 February 2025, Malaysia's Personal Data Protection...more

Ninth Circuit Upholds Conviction of Former Uber Security Chief Joseph Sullivan in Connection with 2016 Uber Data Security Breach

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 3/20/2025

On March 13, 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously upheld the conviction of former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan. The ruling affirms Sullivan’s 2022 conviction...more

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