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Data Breach
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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Lending Tree Notifies 70,000 Customers of Data Breach
Online mortgage lender Lending Tree sent breach notification letters to affected individuals on June 29, 2022. The letter advises those persons that their name, social security number, date of birth,…
Rivkin Rounds
University Health Center Pays $875,000 in HIPAA Fines after Cyber Hack
Oklahoma State University’s Center for Health Services recently paid $875,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations after a cyberattack resulted in the unauthorized access of its patients’ protected health information. A…
State AG Blog
State AG Updates: June 23-29, 2022
Each week, Crowell & Moring's State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week's updates. Multistate A coalition of 22 state attorneys general,…
Data Protection Report
Apply the law where breached servers are located?
By David Kessler (US), Susan Ross (US)
On June 28, 2022, a federal trial court in South Carolina ruled that a group of consumers could proceed with common law negligence and gross negligence claims if they could…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Privacy class action ruling a ‘blueprint’ for organizations dealing with data breach: lawyers
Quick and transparent response meant regulatory agency avoided punitive damages
eDiscovery Today Blog
Largest Data Breach in History? Maybe in Total Number of People Affected (if True): Cybersecurity Trends
By Doug Austin
24 terabytes (TB) of data for information on 1 billion Chinese for 10 Bitcoin, worth about $204,280? That could be the largest data breach in history (if it’s true, that…
Data Counsel
DSIR Deeper Dive: Class Certification Jurisprudence
Over the years, there have been very few class certification rulings in actions arising from data breach incidents. Of those that have been published, most have favored the defense. However,…
Ad Law Access
Carnival Cruise Brings Multistate Data Breach into Port
By Paul Singer, Beth Chun
Even as states continue to pass comprehensive privacy laws, Attorneys General remain active enforcing their data breach laws and utilizing their deceptive trade practice authority in the privacy space. Just…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Maryland Amends Its Personal Information Protection Act
On May 29, 2022, the Maryland legislature enacted House Bill 962, which amends Maryland’s Personal Information Protection Act.
Canadian Lawyer Mag
University accidentally leaks personal information of 15,000 students
Email mix-up saw students receive each others data