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Data Breach
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Consumer Finance Monitor
New York Regulation of Consumer Reporting Agencies Following Data Breaches
By Kim Phan
This week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a press release directing the New York Department of State to issue a new regulation impacting consumer reporting agencies. The new regulation…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
PayPal’s Canadian Payments Processing Company Suffers Breach
PayPal has acknowledged that TIO, the Canadian payments processing company that it acquired in July 2017 has suffered a data breach that compromised the information of up to 1.6 million…
The D&O Diary
Yet Another Data Breach-Related Securities Suit Filed
While commentators (like me) were predicting a blitz of data breach-related D&O litigation, the anticipated onslaught failed to materialize. The few cases that were filed --in the form of shareholder…
Class Action Countermeasures
Spokeo Standing in 2017
With the year ending, and McGuireWoods’s webinar next week on class actions’ Hot Issues of 2017 approaching, this seems like a good time to take note of a few of the trends…
Technology Law Dispatch
Morrisons found vicariously liable for a data breach committed by one of its employees
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, John O'Brien, Eleanor Brooks
Following a recent ruling by the High Court against WM Morrisons Supermarket PLC (“Morrisons”), employers may now find themselves vicariously liable for data breaches perpetrated by their employees. Background In…
The D&O Diary
Investors File Data Breach-Related Securities Suit Against PayPal
Commentators (including me) have long speculated about the possible future direction of data breach-related litigation. There have of course been a number of very high profile data breach-related consumer class…
Inside Privacy
English High Court Finds Supermarket Liable for Data Breach by Employee in First Successful Privacy Class Action
On December 1, 2017, the High Court of England and Wales found the fourth-largest supermarket chain in the UK, Wm Morrisons (“Morrisons”), vicariously liable for a data breach caused by…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
EU and U.S. Regulators respond to the Uber breach
By Emmanuel Ronco, Gareth Kristensen, Hannah Rogers
The disclosure by Uber of a data breach that occurred in October 2016 has prompted a growing number of regulators to open investigations into the company. According to Bloomberg, the…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Are you kidding me? Only 15% of US companies have insurance for their data!
By Peter Vogel
One might conclude it makes a lot of sense to insure business data after considering Tableau’s report that included Ponemon’s estimate that the “average total cost of a data breach…
The D&O Diary
Executive Liability for Data Breach Notification Delay?
The outrage that followed Uber’s revelation that hackers had accessed 57 million passenger and drive records was not about the breach itself. It was about the accompanying disclosure that the…