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Data Breach
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IBM Publishes its Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020
IBM Security released in July its annual Cost of a Data Breach report this week. The study of over 500 data breaches was conducted by Ponemon Institute. Never got around…
The D&O Diary
Zendesk Data Breach-Related Securities Lawsuit Dismissed
Although some cybersecurity incident-related securities lawsuits have proven to be successful for plaintiffs (refer, for example, here), many of these lawsuits have not gotten very far. The latest data breach-related…
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Cadwalader Law Firm and Two Bar Associations Breached
Law.com reported on November 9 that The New York City Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association have reported data breaches this year, according to reports filed with the Maryland…
Assured SPC Blog
CPRA and Data Breaches – no free lunch
By Barry Weber
Data breaches and the 30 day cure The California Consumer Privacy Act provides a business a 30-day cure period that consumers must give the business before suing for statutory damages.…
Health Law Diagnosis
ShopRite Settles with New Jersey AG for Data Breach
New Jersey Attorney General (AG) Gurbir S. Grewal announced on November 2, 2020, that his office has settled with ShopRite’s parent company, Wakefern Food Corp. (Wakefern) and two of its…
Virgin Islands Law Blog
How to Protect Your Business Against Data Breaches
By Tom Bolt
As long as businesses continue to rely on the internet and digital technology for data storage and communication, there is going to be some risk of those systems being compromised…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
ShopRite Settles with NJ AG for Data Breach
New Jersey Attorney General (AG) Gurbir S. Grewal announced on November 2, 2020, that his office has settled with ShopRite’s parent company, Wakefern Food Corp. (Wakefern) and two of its…
Southeast Financial Litigation Monitor
Giving Teeth to Article III Standing Requirements in the Eleventh Circuit.
By Meghan E. Pieler, Jason Tompkins, Gregory C. Cook
The federal courts have been struggling for several years to clarify Article III standing law. Is it enough that a plaintiff satisfy the elements of a federal consumer protection statute?…
Data Privacy Dish
Does the CPRA require companies to undergo security risk assessments?
Likely no. While the CCPA provides for statutory damages if certain personal information is exposed in a data breach due to a business’s failure to have reasonable and appropriate security…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery Blog
36 Billion records exposed in 2020 through October!
By Peter Vogel
HelpNetSecurity.com reported that “The number of records exposed has increased to a staggering 36 billion. There were 2,935 publicly reported breaches in the first three quarters of 2020, with the…