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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
OPM Breach Update
In response to the massive OPM data breach, the government has been searching for a vendor to provide identity protection services for the almost 22 million individuals affected. Bids were…
Family Law Prof Blog
Infidelity in Ottawa
By Family Law
From the BBC:Earlier this month, hackers broke into Ashley Madison, a dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouses. "Life is short. Have an affair," reads…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Nuclear Facility Shutdown, Litigation Hold, Cruise Industry
The big legal news of the week is clear: it's the Third Circuit's ruling on the FTC's authority to regulate data breaches. We covered it a lot in the Top…
Mortgage Crisis & Financial Services Watch
Financial Services Companies Seek Larger Payout in Target Data Security Suit
Attorneys for certain banks and other financial institutions that are caught up in Target’s 2013 data breach are objecting to the $67 million deal struck last week between the retailer…
Technology Law Dispatch
Target Reaches $67 Million Settlement with Visa over Data Breach Claims
By Paul Bond, Samuel Goldstick, Rana Ansari
More than a year-and-a-half after Target’s December 2013 announcement of a massive data breach, the retailer has reached an agreement with Visa, whereby it will reimburse Visa and certain affected…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
After Big Win at Third Circuit in Wyndham Suit, FTC Will Continue to Regulate Data Breaches
Anybody who’s holding out hope that the FTC’s cybersecurity guidelines were pure government overreach, it might be time to throw in the towel. The Third Circuit has spoken. Thus far,…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Data Breach Enforcement, Social Media E-Discovery, Workers’ Comp
The Ashley Madison hack continues to be a very popular subject of conversation and, it'll be interesting to see if another court ruling—with Wyndham and the FTC—impacts how it's litigated.…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Web.com Suffers Data Breach Affecting 93,000 Customers
The list of companies hit by cyber-attacks continues to grow. This time, Florida-based web hosting company, Web.com, has announced that it suffered a data breach that may have compromised credit…
Password Protected
Neiman Marcus Seeks En Banc Review of Seventh Circuit’s Watershed Data Breach Class-Action Decision
By 1531349482-httpswww.passwordprotectedlaw.com
Does a data breach of a retailer’s payment-card information automatically confer Article III standing on affected customers? Is the mere possibility that some criminal element may use pilfered information to…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Ashley Madison hackers release hacked data and offer advice to users to make amends
On Tuesday, August 18, hackers calling themselves the Impact Team, which claim responsibility for hacking the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison (view related post), and stealing information of up to…