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Data Breach
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Technology Law Dispatch
Steps Colleges and Universities Should Take Avoid or Mitigate Exposure to Data Breaches
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski, Mark S. Melodia, David E. Weiss, Cristina Shea, Matt Rosso
Higher education institutions are increasingly targets of data breaches due to the vast amount of private information, including educational, medical and employee data, they maintain. It is no longer a…
The Policyholder Perspective
Data Breaches Are Not Academic: Colleges and Universities Should Take Appropriate Steps To Avoid or at Least Minimize Their Exposure
By David E. Weiss, Cristina Shea, Matt Rosso
Data breaches at colleges and universities are on the rise. These institutions are targets because their networks have access to a large amount of private information, including educational and medical…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Scottrade announces data breach affecting 4.6M customers
Scottrade, a retail brokerage firm, announced late last week that it suffered an intrusion by cyber hackers who stole client contact information of 4.6 million customers. The intrusion occurred between…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
6,400 American Bankers Association members’ usernames and passwords compromised
Late last week, the American Bankers Association disclosed that its computer systems had been compromised exposing thousands of members’ personal information. The hacking occurred through its website’s shopping cart tool,…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Privacy Policies Matter… Whether You Read Them Or Not
New innovations come hand in hand with new privacy issues. Privacy policies may seem like a last minute add-on to some app developers but they are actually an important aspect…
Data Law Insights
Key Privacy & Cybersecurity Developments: September 28, 2015 – October 4, 2015
By 1560210056-httpswww.crowelldatalaw.com
15M T-Mobile Customers Exposed in Hack; Trump Hotels Hit With Data Breach; Privilege Covering Target Docs Challenged; HHS: OCR Should Strengthen HIPAA Oversight; 17.6M U.S. Victims of Identity Theft in…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Trump hotel collection confirms year-long data breach
Trump Hotel Collection, the high-end hotel chain owned by the billionaire Republican presidential hopeful and real estate developer Donald Trump, has confirmed a data security breach involving malware that the…
Mortgage Crisis & Financial Services Watch
Alphabet Soup and Data Security
In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it…
Data Law Insights
Key Privacy & Cybersecurity Developments: September 21, 2015 – September 27, 2015
By 1560210056-httpswww.crowelldatalaw.com
5.6 Million Fingerprints Stolen in OPM Hack; US and China Agree to Economic Cyber Pact; SEC Charges Firm for Failing to Protect Against Hack; EU Court Advisor Says Safe Harbor…
Class Action Countermeasures
Forum Shopping in the Ashley Madison MDL Proceedings
By The Editors
The following post, written by Special Counsel Andrew Phillips, was first published on McGuireWoods's Password Protected blog. I'm delighted to reprint it here. As anticipated in our previous discussion of the Ashley Madison data breach…