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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
LinkedIn admits that 2012 data breach in fact affected 117 million users’ data
A LinkedIn data breach in 2012 supposedly exposed 6.5 million LinkedIn users’ hashed passwords. LinkedIn announced yesterday (May 18, 2016) that in fact, it impacted more than 117 million user…
Technology Law Dispatch
Are You Prepared for Your Vendor’s Data Breach?
Ever since the Target and Home Depot breaches were traced to intrusions at their vendors, the management of cybersecurity at third-party vendors has been a focus of companies and regulators. The…
Technology Law Dispatch
Superior Court of Pennsylvania Denies Data Breach Class Certification
In an encouraging development for data breach defendants, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently affirmed a trial court decision rejecting class certification in a suit filed against two Medicare programs…
Technology Law Dispatch
Georgia Attorney General Supports Federal Data Breach Standard
By Divonne Smoyer, Kimberly Chow
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens has come out in support of federal data breach preemption as a more realistic way to ask companies to comply with regulatory requirements in the…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Intermedix data breach class action case dismissed
We previously reported that Intermedix was sued in a class action lawsuit regarding the data breach involving millions of patient records [view related post here]. On May 3, 2016, the…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Wendy’s confirms data breach of point of sale system
Wendy’s confirmed yesterday in its first quarter financial statement that its investigation into a credit card breach did uncover malicious software on its point of sale systems on fewer than…
Data Protection Report
Legal update: Security issue could impact ADP customers
Cyber criminals appear to have gained unauthorized access to ADP, Inc.’s self-service customer portal to file fraudulent tax returns for some ADP customer employees. ADP has reportedly confirmed that a…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Employee Training about phishing is critical since only 3% of phishing targets alert management!
By Peter Vogel
Is there any doubt that training employees about phishing would help reduce the malware damage? Of course there’s also no surprise in a recent Verizon report which indicated that 89%…
California Workplace Law Blog
Employers Beware of Phishing Scams
By Nathan W. Austin, Dale R. Kuykendall
On April 20, 2016, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of California against Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. The lawsuit was initiated by…
Data Counsel
Deeper Dive: Regulatory Investigations Following a Reported Breach
We recently released our 2016 Data Security Incident Response Report (“Report”), which provides lessons learned and metrics related to over 300 data security incidents handled by our team. As noted…