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Data Breach
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Petronella Cybersecurity and Compliance Blog
Historically Significant Hacks and How YOUR Business Can Avoid This List
We've all seen the news and read the headlines - Hackers aren't going anywhere anytime soon!So what can YOU do to keep your company's name out of the papers? Listen…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
District Court Partially Grants Certification of Consumer Data Breach Class Action
By Noah DiPasquale, H. Scott Kelly, Cindy D. Hanson, Ronald I. Raether, Jr.
On May 3, Judge Grimm of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a class certification decision in a consumer data breach multidistrict litigation case against an…
Data Counsel
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents
Click the image to download the 2022 DSIR Report. Vendor-caused incidents continued to surge in 2021. Nearly 20 percent of the total incidents we handled last year were caused by…
Privacy World
Third Circuit Issues Order in WaWa Data Breach
CPW has been covering the data breach litigation In re: Wawa, Inc. Data Security Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (see here and…
Global Policy Watch
Companies Increasingly Facing Class Actions Connected to Cryptocurrency Theft
By Sam Greeley, Ashley Simonsen, Mike Nonaka, Kathryn Cahoy
A recent class action refiled in federal court against Shopify highlights a growing trend of lawsuits against companies related to the theft of cryptocurrency, particularly as a result of internal…
Mike McBride Online
Linked: Data breaches happen constantly and there are very little consequences
By Mike McBride
This is the crux of the problem. Personal information is going to be breached, eventually. There is no 100% secure data. None. No business, government entity, non-profit, or any other…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Financial institutions face increasingly stringent federal breach reporting requirements
By Philip N. Yannella, Doris Yuen
The last few months have seen a flurry of new federal cybersecurity incident reporting requirements and proposals impacting private entities in the financial sector. As the number and frequency of…
Technology Law Dispatch
CafePress FTC settlement signals future approach to enforcement actions
By Eric Manski, Lauren Weaver, Nikki Bhargava
On March 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a proposed settlement with online custom merchandise platform CafePress in connection with the company’s alleged: (1) failure to implement reasonable…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Mediant Communications Settles Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit
Last week, Mediant Communications Inc. (Mediant) settled a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York stemming from a 2019 data breach in…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Another Data Breach Lawsuit for Lakeview Loan Servicing
A December 2021 breach of Lakeview Loan Servicing’s customer data has led to another proposed class action against the company in the U.S. District Court for the District of South…