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Top 10 in law Blogs: Obamacare, Manterrupters, Astros Hack
Because we're getting to this late, we better get right to it. Though, before doing so, Zosha has a piece today on the big marijuana employment law decision coming out…
Data Law Insights
Key Privacy and Cybersecurity Developments: June 8-12, 2015
By 1560210056-httpswww.crowelldatalaw.com
Litigation and regulation surrounding privacy and cybersecurity is continuously developing, both within the government and the private sector. This digest summarizes the most notable events in data security this week.…
Data Counsel
Connecticut May Become First State to Require Identity Theft Protection
A bill currently before Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy would make the state the first in the nation to require identity theft protection for data breach victims. Senate Bill 949…
Password Protected
Update Regarding Office of Personnel Management Cyber Attack
More details continue to emerge about the cyber attack and data breach disclosed last week of the U.S. federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and those details continue to…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
District Court Dismisses Data Breach Class Action Against GameStop, Inc.
By William M. Regan, Zachary Denver
The US District Court for the District of Minnesota recently dismissed a data breach class action against GameStop, Inc. and Sunrise Publications, Inc. (d/b/a Game Informer) for lack of constitutional…
Technology Law Dispatch
Employees Can’t Sue Hospital for Negligence, Breach of Contract, After Personal Data Breach
In a favorable decision for defendants in data breach litigation, the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County held that the economic loss doctrine prevented the negligence claim of…
The Right Coast
Why The OPM Breach Is Such a Security and Privacy Debacle | WIRED
It turns out the hackers, who are believed to be from China, also accessed so-called SF-86 forms, documents used for conducting background checks for worker security clearances. The forms can…
The Right Coast
Report: Hack of government employee records discovered by product demo | Ars Technica
Those statements may not be entirely accurate. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the breach was indeed discovered in April. But according to sources who spoke to the WSJ's…
The Right Coast
The OPM Hacking Scandal Just Got Worse | The XX Committee
The bad news keeps piling up with this story, including reports that OPM records may have appeared, for sale, on the darknet. Moreover, OPM seems to have initially low-balled just…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Heartland Payment Systems suffers another data breach
Heartland Payment Systems suffered one of the largest breaches in history in 2008, when over 100 million credit and debit cards issued by hundreds of financial service companies were stolen…