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Data Breach
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Southeast Financial Litigation Monitor
Class certification denied for data breach claim brought by bank against retailer
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama denied Southern Independent Bank’s (“Southern Independent’s”) motion for class certification following a data breach which allegedly affected over…
Healthcare Law Blog
Cybersecurity, Inside Jobs, Outside Jobs, and HIPAA
By Kenneth Yood, Vinay Bhupathy
According to a February 12, 2019 Press Release from Protenus, a developer of analytics for patient privacy monitoring and compliance, 15,085,302 patient records were breached in 2018 – a startling…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Employees and Partner Organizations Pose Threat to Companies
According to the 2019 Verizon Insider Threat Report, 20 percent of all cybersecurity incidents and 15 percent of data breaches in 2018 were caused by insiders—that is, employees or partner…
Declassified
Injury-in-Fact vs. Actual Damages — Avoiding a Jurisdictional Sideshow in Data Breach Class Actions by Challenging Damages, Not Injury
By J. Thomas Richie, Zachary A. Madonia
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo v. Robins, which held that federal plaintiffs alleging a statutory violation must have suffered a real, concrete injury in order to have Article…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
NJ Amendment to Data Breach Notification Law, Moves to Governor
By Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Maya Atrakchi
In light of several large-scale breaches of late, the New Jersey General Assembly is taking steps to enhance the state’s data breach notification requirements. In late February, Assembly Bill 3245…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Should Companies Terminate Third Party Vendors That Cause a Data Breach?
According to reports, bank customers in Australia (yes, data breach notification requirements exist down under) have been affected by "an industry-wide” data breach experienced by a third-party service provider to the banks…
Legal Loudspeaker Blog
Cyber Attacks Costly For Small And Midsize Firms
In 2018 the average cost of a cyber attack for a U.S. company was $7.91 million. According to The Financial Journal, the average cost for a business to recover from…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
California AG Seeks to Further Amend State’s Data Breach Notification Law
Yesterday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael)announced Assembly Bill 1130 which is intended to strengthen California’s existing data breach notification law. In short, AB 1130 would amend…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
HIPAA Data Breach Reports Due to OCR by 2/28/19
The HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) breach notification regulations require covered entities to self-report the unauthorized access, use or disclosure of unprotected protected health information (PHI) to the…
Mike McBride Online
Linked – China Facial Recognition Database Leak Sparks Fears Over Mass Data Collection
By Mike McBride
As much as I am very concerned about the invasion of privacy that comes along with ever-present government and commercial surveillance, the even bigger concern might just be what an…