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Data Breach
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Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal For Lack of Standing in Data Breach Case
By Rahul Mukhi, Alanna B. Newman
Last week, the Ninth Circuit reversed a Nevada district court’s dismissal, for lack of Article III standing, of plaintiffs’ claims arising out of a data breach.[1] In so holding, the…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
473,807 Patient Records Compromised in January, 2018—83 Percent Caused by Hacking Incidents
The recently released Protenus Healthcare Breach Barometer report notes that in January, 2018, at least 473,807 patient records were compromised in 37 breaches reported to the Office for Civil Rights.…
Eye On Privacy
Power Company Slammed With Hefty $2.7M Fine After Data Breach
An unnamed power company was hit with a $2.7 million fine after it was discovered that protected information associated with the company’s critical cyber assets was posted online. The data…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
Pennsylvania Attorney General Sues Uber Over Data Breach
By Rahul Mukhi, Kal Blassberger
Last week, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General sued Uber for allegedly failing to provide timely notice to its drivers that their personal identifying information (“PII”) had been compromised in a data breach…
Data Law Insights
Ninth Circuit Revives Data Breach Class Action, Finds Risk of Identity Theft Without Actual Harm Sufficient to Establish Standing
By Nathanial J. Wood, Jeffrey L. Poston
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit revived a class action lawsuit related to a 2012 data breach, determining that the future risk of identity theft…
Data Counsel
Colorado Legislature Signals That It May Create More Stringent Data Destruction Regulations and Tighten Breach Reporting Requirements
By Sammantha Tillotson, Casie Collignon
In January 2018, Colorado legislators sponsored a bill that, if passed, will change the state’s existing data breach reporting laws in important ways. A House Committee Report detailing the current…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Yahoo’s ToS limitations of liabilities challenged in Cyberbreach of 3 billion users!
By Peter Vogel
Reuters reported that Judge Lucy Kohl ruled that “the plaintiffs could try to show that liability limits in Yahoo’s terms of service were “unconscionable,” given the allegations that Yahoo knew…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Says Hacking Victims Have Standing to Sue, even Without Actual Identity Theft
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Ninth Circuit ruled this week that victims of a commercial web-site hacking have standing to sue the site for failure to secure their…
Privacy and Cybersecurity Perspectives
The Standing Struggle in Data Breach Litigation Continues
Two courts. Two days. Two different results. On March 7, on remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a federal district court judge in Minnesota granted…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
Yahoo! Enters Proposed Settlement in Data Breach Securities Class Action
By Rahul Mukhi, Kal Blassberger, Roger A. Cooper
On March 2, 2018, Yahoo! entered into a proposed settlement of a securities class action filed against the company following its disclosures in 2016 that it had suffered significant data…