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Data Breach
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Accellion Retains Latham & Watkins to Defend Against Data Breach Lawsuits
The American Lawyer reported on March 5 that Accellion, the cybersecurity company whose 20-year old FTA product (file transfer service) was the subject of a hack that affected businesses worldwide,…
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PATCH NOW! Massive Hack on Microsoft Exchange Servers
The Washington Post (sub.req.) reported on March 8 that the White House and U.S. intelligence officials have issued increasingly urgent warnings for organizations to patch a critical vulnerability in Microsoft…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
11th Circuit Rejects Standing Based on Heightened Risk of Identity Theft in Data Breach Suit
By Alexis Collins, Jonathan Jaroslawicz
Last month, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed claims brought in a putative class action seeking damages for disclosure of credit card information in a data breach resulting from…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
BREAKING NEWS: Court Holds CCPA Not Retroactive and Plaintiff Cannot Rely on “Connect the Dots” CCPA Data Breach Theory
CPW has been tracking for some time the Lavarious Gardiner v. Walmart Inc. et al. case. In a massive win for Walmart (and defendants in data privacy litigation), on Friday the…
Data Privacy Dish
Does a company need to treat exfiltration of personal data by a former employee as a data breach under the GDPR?
Possibly. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued draft practical guidance on various types of data breaches to assist companies with identifying situations in which a data security incident may…
eDiscovery Today Blog
Gartner Data Breach Preparedness for the Midsize Enterprise CIO: Cybersecurity Trends
By Doug Austin
It’s data breach day – in a good way! Let’s face it, data breaches happen to many organizations out there and, chances are, most organizations will be hit with one…
eDiscovery Today Blog
Don’t Egress! It’s Another Survey Result on Data Breaches!: Cybersecurity Trends
By Doug Austin
See what I did there? ;-) Here’s a report that finds that 96% of IT leaders within the legal sector say that client and company data is at risk via…
ComplexDiscovery
SOARing Costs? Considering Data Breach Economics
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: Based on the increased pulse rate of reported data breaches in today’s connected world, more organizations than ever before are evaluating and investing in security orchestration, automation, and…
Privacy World
Who Has Standing in a Data Breach Litigation? In The Third Circuit, Fear of Speculative Future Harm Still Doesn’t Cut It
By Kristin Bryan, Angelo Carosio
As the number of data breaches continue to rise, so too will the number of lawsuits filed. As CPW previously reported, the number of data breaches in 2020 was more…
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Congress Addresses Private Sector Sharing Data Breach Info with Government
The Washington Post (sub.req.) reported on February 24 that companies responding to a massive Russian hack urged Congress to update laws on how the private sector shares information about cybersecurity…