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Data Breach
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Law Times News
OCA refuses to extend intrusion upon seclusion liability to hacked commercial database holders
But privacy claimants may sue in negligence, contract or statutory breach
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
5.4Million Twitter Users’ Data Posted Online for free!
By Peter Vogel
DataBreachToday.com reported that “…the dumped database says it includes the 5.4 million users' usernames, display names, bios, locations, email addresses and phone numbers. The attacker amassed the data by exploiting…
Smokeball Blog
What Law Firms Need to Know About Cybersecurity in 2023 & Beyond
Cybersecurity is one of the most critical challenges law firms face today and in the future. By nature, a law firm of any size interacts with, stores and is the…
The D&O Diary
Guest Post: SolarWinds Agrees to $26 Million Payout Over Massive Data Breach
[caption id="attachment_23807" align="alignleft" width="206"] Jarett Sena[/caption] As I have noted in numerous posts on this site (most recently here), plaintiffs’ lawyers seem drawn to filing D&O claims against companies that…
Law Practice Tips
Protecting Client Information on Portable Devices
By Jim Calloway
What if you copied a lot of documents to a USB flash drive for working offline and now you can’t find the drive? Do you have to report this potential…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
Imminent and Substantial: The Third Circuit Holds That the Leak of Personal Information onto the Dark Web is Sufficient to Establish an “Injury-In-Fact”
By Devin Chwastyk, Gregory Archibald
A recent decision from the Third Circuit suggests that the leak of information onto the Dark Web provides standing to class action plaintiffs in data breach litigation. In Clemens v.…
Corporate Defense and Disputes
SolarWinds: A Lesson on How Companies Victimized by Data Breaches Can Quickly Become the Target of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations
By Margaret A. Dale, Nolan Goldberg, Michelle M. Ovanesian
In 2020, SolarWinds Corp., a company that provided information technology software to private and government entities, was the victim of a cybersecurity breach. Russian hackers are believed to have slipped…
Proskauer on Privacy
SolarWinds: A Lesson on How Companies Victimized by Data Breaches Can Quickly Become the Target of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations
By Margaret A. Dale, Nolan Goldberg, Michelle M. Ovanesian
In 2020, SolarWinds Corp., a company that provided information technology software to private and government entities, was the victim of a cybersecurity breach. Russian hackers are believed to have slipped…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Pennsylvania Amends Breach Notification Law
On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf singed Senate Bill 636 into law, amending Pennsylvania’s breach notification law.
Bright Law Blog
Notifiable Data Breaches Report January to June 2022
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has published its latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report covering notifications made under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme from 1 January to…