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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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Advocate Aurora Health to Pay $12.25 Million Settlement for Data Breach Class Action

In October 2022, Advocate Aurora Health notified 3 million individuals of a data breach resulting from its use of tracking pixels on its website for tracking website visitor activity. Now, this month, Advocate Aurora Health...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2021 Privacy and Cybersecurity Year in Review

FTC Activities in 2021 and Likely Trends for 2022 2021 saw the kickoff of the Khan era at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). During FTC Chair Lina Khan's first nine months on the job, she has announced privacy and security...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

NJ Infertility Clinic Reaches $495,000 Data Breach Settlement

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The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced on October 12 that Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause, LLC, based in Millburn, NJ, will pay a $495,000 penalty for allegedly violating HIPAA and state law by...more

K2 Integrity

Don’t Let Hackers Profit from Your Privacy

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These days, data sharing is more than a business—it’s an industry. Every day, data aggregators and brokers comb the internet for personal information. Because they rarely engage directly with us, we are dangerously unaware of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Cybersecurity Myths Debunked

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Security incidents, loss of customer data, exposure of confidential corporate assets, demands of ransom, and similar stories are becoming daily headlines with the impacts being felt across a wide variety of industries. We...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

PRIVACY POLICIES AND THE SALE OF CORPORATE ASSETS: It pays to plan ahead to preserve the value of your data assets

Personal data is a valuable corporate asset. At times, the personal information collected from customers (such as email address, mailing address, phone number, etc.) can be a company’s most valuable asset. Unfortunately,...more

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What is reasonable? The emerging legalities of cybersecurity post-Wyndham

This month’s edition of the Advanced Cyber Security Center’s newletter includes my discussion of lessons to be learned from the Wyndham decision: Historically, security was an issue reserved in a back room for the IT...more

BakerHostetler

The SEC OCIE Announces Increased Scrutiny of Broker-Dealers’ and Investment Advisers’ Cybersecurity Programs

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On September 15, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a National Exam Program Risk Alert (2015 Risk Alert) to provide broker-dealers and investment...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal appeals court confirms FTC authority to regulate cybersecurity policies and procedures

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Banks and other companies subject to the CFPB’s jurisdiction face the possibility that the CFPB could begin using its authority under Sections 1031 and 1036 of the Dodd-Frank Act (which proscribe unfair, deceptive or abusive...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Third Circuit affirms FTC’s jurisdiction over security practices in Wyndham case

In a strongly worded opinion, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday slammed Wyndham Worldwide Corporation’s arguments that the FTC did not have jurisdiction to enforce the security practices of businesses following a...more

Bilzin Sumberg

New Potential Liability for Data Security: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Announces FTC has Authority to Scrutinize a...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to scrutinize a business’s data security protocol -- and to file a complaint if the FTC finds that protocol...more

Polsinelli

Cybersecurity for Startups Now a Cost of Entry for Consideration by Larger Clients: What is Your Company's Plan?

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For technology startups, maintaining strong security controls remains vital to winning new business opportunities and strengthening existing relationships. Despite the global spike in cybersecurity attacks (there were 42.8...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Ashley Madison and Coming to “Terms” with Data Protection

A recent massive data hack of an online dating site Ashley Madison once again proves that what one publishes, says, or does online, even in seemingly private forums, is never completely private. It’s also a reminder that the...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Healthcare Organizations not Immune from Criminal Attacks on Sensitive Information

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This month, the Ponemon Institute released its Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data and its findings are generating a good deal of attention. In the past, the Study has found that most data...more

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Inspector General’s Report Criticizes the Department of Homeland Security for Inadequate Privacy Policies and Controls

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On November 14, 2014, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a report critical of the agency’s performance in protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Monday – January 13, 2014

These are busy times in the data privacy/security world. If Misery Loves Company, Target Has Friends - Target was not the only target of data thieves this holiday season. Reports over the weekend revealed that...more

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