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Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
State Regulators Reach Settlement With Equifax in Connection With Massive Data Breach
By Jonathan S. Kolodner, Pamela L. Marcogliese, Rahul Mukhi, Alexis Collins, Laura Gavin
On June 27, 2018, Equifax Inc., the credit reporting agency, agreed to implement stronger data security measures under a consent order with the New York State Department of Financial Services…
Cleary Enforcement Watch
State Regulators Reach Settlement With Equifax in Connection With Massive Data Breach
By Jonathan S. Kolodner, Pamela L. Marcogliese, Rahul Mukhi, Alexis Collins, Laura Gavin
On June 27, 2018, Equifax Inc., the credit reporting agency, agreed to implement stronger data security measures under a consent order with the New York State Department of Financial Services…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Equifax Enters Into Consent Order with State Banking Regulators Regarding 2017 Data Breach
On June 27, 2018, Equifax entered into a consent order with 8 state banking regulators, including those in New York and California, arising from the company’s 2017 data breach that…
Eye On Privacy
South Dakota’s Breach Notice Law Now In Effect
By Liisa Thomas
As we wrote when the law passed, South Dakota now has a data breach notification law, making it the last state to have a data breach notification statute on the…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Data Breach Results in $1.4 Million Theft from CHET 529 College-Savings Accounts
By Norman Roos, Scott Baird, Guest Contributor
On June 27, 2018, the State of Connecticut Treasurer’s Office announced that about $1.4 million had been stolen from Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) college-savings accounts. This theft resulted from…
Privacy and Cybersecurity Perspectives
California Gets Its Very Own GDPR with Statutory Damages
You could almost hear the cheers of plaintiffs’ class action lawyers in California last night, as California’s governor signed the most sweeping privacy law this country has seen to date. …
Eye On Privacy
Colorado Enacts Stringent Data Breach Notification Law
By Liisa Thomas
Colorado’s governor recently signed into law an update to the state’s breach notice law. As we reported yesterday the new law takes effect on September 1, 2018. As amended, the…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Connecticut Expands Consumer Protections Against Identity Theft and Data Breaches
By Conor Duffy
On June 4, 2018, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed into law Public Act No. 18-90 “An Act Concerning Security Freezes on Credit Reports, Identity Theft Prevention Services and Regulations…
Privacy and Cybersecurity Perspectives
ALJ Judge Upholds OCR’s $4,348,000 Data Breach Penalty on Texas Hospital
HIPAA has teeth. On June 1, 2018, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ruled that the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center violated HIPAA. In doing so, the ALJ granted…
Every Day I'm Lawyering
Sidestepping Encryption? Better Be Ready To Pay Millions For HIPAA Violations
By Kevin Peek
Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.comEarlier this week, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was ordered to pay a staggering $4,348,000.00 in order to resolve HIPAA violations from data breaches…