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Data Breach
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Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
Multiple Agencies Announce Probes into Equifax Breach
Several regulators have promptly announced investigations into the circumstances surrounding the Equifax breach. The New York Attorney General was the first to announce his office was launching an inquiry. Since…
TortsProf Blog
Geistfeld on Data Breaches
Mark Geistfeld has posted to SSRN Protecting Confidential Information Entrusted to Others in Business Transactions: Data Breaches, Identity Theft, and Tort Liability. The abstract provides:Tort litigation over data breaches —…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Protection of servicemembers, Equifax data breach provide mistaken justifications for CFPB arbitration rule
In a mistaken attempt to justify the CFPB's arbitration rule, supporters are pointing to the need to protect the rights of military servicemembers and the recent Equifax data breach. On…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
NY Governor Seeks To Regulate Credit Reporting Agencies Following Equifax Breach
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that in response to the Equifax breach he was proposing a new NY Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) regulation that would give DFS oversight…
Litigation & Trial
Equifax And The Long Legal Road In Data Breach Class Actions
Equifax, which knows more about you than your own mother, (1) failed to maintain its servers, (2) was hacked and lost sensitive personal data for 143 million people, (3) concealed…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
The Biggest Health Care Data Breaches in 2017
Health Data Management (HDM), using information compiled by Protenus Breach Barometer, published a list this week of the biggest health care data breaches so far in 2017. The list used…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #105 – Data Breach Woes
I spend a lot of time and effort to protect the privacy of my personal information. I am very careful. I have pretty good security hygiene. But I don’t have…
The D&O Diary
Equifax Data Breach Litigation Now Includes Securities Suit
In the wake of credit monitoring and reporting firm Equifax’s announcement last week that it had sustained a data breach involving 143 million U.S. customers, a wave of consumer class…
Data Privacy & Security Observer
I May Have Been Affected by the Equifax Breach: Now What Do I Do?
If you’ve seen the news, you’re probably aware that Equifax announced last week that hackers had breached some of its website application software, potentially affecting the sensitive personal information of…
Information Bytes
Equifax breach – hot mess, or simply the world we live in?
By Peter Sloan
The grousing began within 24 hours of Equifax's announcement, last Thursday, of its massive data breach that compromised personal data of over 140 million U.S. consumers. I'm generally unsympathetic about such…