Topic
Data Breach
3,452 published works
Inside Privacy
Kentucky Enacts Data Breach Notification Law
Last week, Kentucky governor Steve Beshear signed H.B. 232 into law, making Kentucky the 47th state to enact data breach notification legislation. The law requires companies that suffer a data breach to…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
The Wild West of Data Breach Enforcement by the Feds
By Fox Rothschild LLP, Elizabeth Litten
Imagine you have completed your HIPAA risk assessment and implemented a robust privacy and security plan designed to meet each criteria of the Omnibus Rule. You think that, should you…
LawSites
Which Legal Sites Did Heartbleed Affect?
You've no doubt heard about Heartbleed, the security flaw that exposed personal information at many leading websites. The flaw was in OpenSSL, an open-source version of the SSL protocol that…
Technology Law Dispatch
Article 29 Working Party adopts opinion on Personal Data Breach Notification
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
This post was written by Cynthia O'Donoghue. At the end of March, the EU’s Article 29 Working Party adopted an opinion on Personal Data Breach Notification (the Opinion). The Opinion…
Securities Compliance Sentinel
Why Should You Care About Cyber-Security
By Joshua Horn
The short answer to this question is that the SEC and FINRA care. Both regulators have made this issue an exam priority for the year, and it was recently a…
The Right Coast
Appeals Court Overturns Conviction of AT&T Hacker Weev | Threat Level | WIRED
A hacker sentenced to three and a half years in prison for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T s unsecured website is about to…
Ad Law Access
Wyndham Hits a Wall in Challenge to FTC Data Breach Authority
Earlier this week, a federal district court in New Jersey issued an opinion ruling on Wyndham Worldwide Corporation’s and three of its subsidiaries’ (collectively “Wyndham’s”) motion to dismiss, finding for the…
Inside Privacy
Iowa Amends Breach Notice Law to Require Notice to State AG
Iowa’s governor recently signed into law S.F. 2259, which amends Iowa’s data breach notification law. Under the amendment, entities that suffer breaches of personal information that are required to notify…
The D&O Diary
District Court Upholds FTC’s Authority to Bring Data Breach Enforcement Action
It is a dangerous world out there. Among many other things, companies and other organizations are increasingly vulnerable to data security attacks from would-be hackers. Indeed, an April 8, 2014…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: “Game of Thrones” Song, LMA14, HIPAA & Windows XP
It's time for the Top 10, and then off to Opening Day down at Safeco Field. In the roundup, Bill Ferrell continues his habit of looking at interesting trademarks as…