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Data Breach
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Internet, IT & e-Discovery
GUEST BLOG: In the wake of Yahoo’s CONFESSION it’s time for you learn about 2-factor authentication!
By Peter Vogel
My Guest Blogger Eddie Block (CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/G, CISA, CEH) is a senior attorney in Gardere’s Litigation Group and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal Services Team who focuses…
Data Privacy & Security Observer
Kansas Federal District Court Rules Data Breach Allegations Sufficient for Standing After Spokeo
On December 19, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas denied a motion to dismiss, ruling that the named plaintiff for a putative class, approximately two thousand…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
FTC Settles with Operators of AshleyMadison.com Over Security and Privacy Practices
On December 14, 2016, the FTC announced that the operators of the AshleyMadison.com website have settled with the FTC and a coalition of state regulators over charges that the companies…
Corporate Defense and Disputes
Business Judgment Rule Dooms Home Depot Data Breach Shareholder Derivative Suit
By Margaret A. Dale, Mark Harris
Large-scale corporate data breaches have unfortunately become increasingly common events, posing a variety of challenges to the companies that suffer them. A few weeks ago, a district court in Georgia dismissed one of the first shareholder derivative…
Minding Your Business
Home Depot Data Breach Derivative Suit Sent Home
By Om V. Alladi
Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. of the U.S. District Court of Georgia permanently shelved a derivative suit brought by shareholders of Home Depot. Home Depot is a multinational home improvement…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Take a minute and read Yahoo’s 238 word CONFESSION about the Cyber theft of 1+ billion user accounts!
By Peter Vogel
Yahoo’s public confession entitled “Important Security Information for Yahoo Users” about the August 2013 theft of “data associated with more than one billion user accounts” including “the stolen user account…
Password Protected
Yahoo Déjà Vu – One Billion Yahoo Accounts Hacked
By 1531349482-httpswww.passwordprotectedlaw.com
Yesterday afternoon Yahoo Inc. (Yahoo) announced that user information was stolen from more than one billion accounts in August 2013. Yahoo said that the stolen information includes, “names, email addresses,…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Disclosure of New Data Breach at Yahoo Triples the Affected Account Total
For the second time in just four months, Yahoo has announced a massive cyberattack. The first attack, which occurred in 2014, set a record with the breach of 500 million…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Yahoo Announces Another Breach of One Billion Accounts
Yahoo Inc. announced on December 14th that hackers stole the personal information of more than one billion users, which is in addition to the 500 million accounts compromised that was announced…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Ashley Madison Settles with FTC and State AGs for $1.6 Million
We have previously reported on the Ashley Madison data breach and subsequent litigation [view related posts here, here, here, and here]. On December 14th, Ashley Madison announced that it has…