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Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Supreme Court may decide key damages issue impacting Target data breach cases
By amyhocevar, Squire Patton Boggs
With the onslaught of litigation resulting from Target’s data privacy breaches, including recently filed class actions within the Sixth Circuit in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee federal district courts, there is an increased focus on…
Capital Thinking
Congressional Committees Hold Hearings on Data Breach Issues; NIST To Issue Final Version of Cybersecurity Framework
Legislative Branch Activity Data Breach Issues Last week, three Congressional Committees – the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and the Senate Judiciary Committee…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Proactive Cybersecurity: Reshaping the Way We Think About Data Breaches
By Marshall Jackson and Alaap Shah If you have tuned into the news over the last few months, you are likely aware that several major corporations—including one of the nation’s…
Health IT Law Blog
42K records breached at Wisconsin health insurance group
Unity Health Plans Insurance Corporation, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, discovered in December 2013 that an unencrypted external hard drive of medical records had disappeared. The records contained patient…
The D&O Diary
Target Directors and Officers Hit with Derivative Suits Based on Data Breach
I have frequently noted that among the many exposures a company experiencing a data breach could encounter is the possibility of a shareholder suit alleging that the company’s board…
Capital Thinking
Target Security Breach topic of Congressional Committee Hearings; DHS Encourages Companies to Adopt Cybersecurity Standards
Legislative Branch Activity Data Breach This week, several Congressional Committees will hold a number of hearings focused on the recent data breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and other large companies…
Of Digital Interest
In with the New, Part III: 2014 Privacy, Advertising and Digital Media Predictions
Boston-based litigation partner Matt Turnell shares his predictions about class action litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) in 2014 and Boston-based white-collar…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Increased Focus on Cyber Insurance Post-Target Breach
In a recent article for Law360, a Hunton and Williams Insurance Litigation partner discusses the impact of the Target breach and the potential pitfalls of cyber insurance policy provisions that…
Cyberblog
Another Takeaway from TARGET: Are you being targeted through your vendors?
Yesterday TARGET announced that the hackers who committed the breach that has potentially affected as many as 110 million customers gained access to its systems through one of its vendors.…
Technology Law Dispatch
A new “target” on their backs: Target’s officers and directors face derivative action arising out of data breach
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski, Andy Moss
This post was also written by David Z. Smith and Carolyn H. Rosenberg. In the wake of its massive data breach, Target now faces a shareholder derivative lawsuit, filed January…