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Data Breach
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Proskauer on Privacy
Crime (Policy) Does Pay – Sixth Circuit Holds That Endorsement of Crime Policy Covers Losses From Hacker’s Data Breach*
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a computer fraud rider to a "Blanket Crime Policy" covers losses from a hacker's theft of customer credit card and checking…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Sixth Circuit Finds Coverage for Losses Resulting from Retailer’s Data Breach
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently upheld a lower court decision that losses resulting from the theft of customers’ banking information in a retailer’s computer…
Data Counsel
Recent Updates in International Data Privacy Law
EU Information Security Agency Recommends Clear and Broad Interpretation of Data Breach Requirements On August 27, 2012, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued a paper, “Cyber Incident…
New Jersey Insurance Coverage Litigation
Crime Policies and Computer Fraud Coverage
By Gene Killian
Can a first-party insurance policy ever provide coverage for third-party loss? Well…that depends on what the policy actually says, which goes back to the first rule of all coverage work: …
Privacy & Data Security Law Journal
How Secure is the Health Care Industry?
By Al Saikali
For years, health care providers have worked hard to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule that requires implementation of administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to secure protected health information (PHI). …
Boston Business Litigation
Disclosure of Cybersecurity Risks and Cybersecurity Insurance Coverage
A data breach occurs and personal information about your customers is compromised. It can happen to any size business, big or small, and the costs to your business can be…
Health IT Law Blog
EHR hackers turn to extortion
Hackers recently struck a small medical practice in suburban Chicago, encrypted the facility’s digital medical records, and then demanded a ransom payment in exchange for allowing the facility to regain…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: LXBN August 23, 2012
In a story that sounds like it belongs on a Hollywood movie set, hackers reportedly breached, and subsequently password-protected and encrypted, a series of files on an Illinois medical practice's…
Privacy & Data Security Law Journal
Data Security – Is Corporate America Finally Getting The Message?
By Al Saikali
A recent survey of corporate general counsel and directors by Corporate Board Member and FTI Consulting, Inc., provides some eye-opening findings about the importance of data security to U.S. companies…
Health IT Law Blog
OCR: Health records of over 7 percent of U.S. population breached in past 3 years
Health records of over seven percent of the U.S. population – almost 21 million individuals – have been breached in the past three years, according to OCR. Although it may…