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Data Breach
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Blackbaud Ransomware Litigation Update
Attorneys for Blackbaud and the putative class action plaintiffs allegedly impacted by the publicly-traded software company’s data breach last year were scheduled to meet last month to discuss a possible…
Litigation Finance Journal
What Have We Learned from Lloyd v Google?
By John Freund
The Supreme Court recently rejected the claim filed by Richard Lloyd against Google. Lloyd is the former executive director of Which?, a consumer protection organization. The case involved a data…
Privacy World
Federal Court Rejects Efforts to Derail Cybersecurity Litigation Settlement
Following a widespread data event and subsequent cybersecurity litigation, last month a group of individuals (“Proposed Intervenors”) moved to intervene and oppose preliminary approval a negotiated proposed settlement. Cochran v.…
ComplexDiscovery
[Legal Education Webcast] Understanding Information Governance, Data Privacy, and Data Breach Exposure
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: From time to time, ComplexDiscovery highlights publicly available or privately purchasable announcements, content updates, and research from cyber, data, and legal discovery providers, research organizations, and ComplexDiscovery community members.…
Mike McBride Online
Linked: DNA testing firm discloses data breach affecting 2.1 million people
By Mike McBride
There is an obvious question here, right? Why do you still have this database sitting around? Seriously, why? Either you're telling the truth and you have a vulnerable system sitting…
The D&O Diary
Data Breach-Related Derivative Suit Filed Against T-Mobile USA Board
The filing of data breach and other cybersecurity incident-related shareholder derivative lawsuits against corporate boards is nothing new; plaintiffs’ lawyers have been filing these kinds of claims now for several…
State AG Blog
State AG Updates: November 8-12, 2021
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates. Monday, November 8, 2021 Antitrust A bipartisan coalition…
Mike McBride Online
Linked: Over 1 million GoDaddy WordPress accounts breached
By Mike McBride
The breach of the WordPress credentials is bad, as is the sFTP credentials. Sure, if you are still using the same WordPress password that GoDaddy assigned to you when you…
Privacy World
Colonial Pipeline Data Breach Litigations: Where Are We Now?
Earlier this year, CPW covered the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack and the two putative class actions filed in reaction to that cyberattack, (Dickerson v. CDCP Colonial Partners, L.P., Case No. 1:21-cv-02098…
Cybersecurity Bits and Bytes
Second Circuit rules that risk of future identity theft not enough to support standing in data breach class action
By Casale, Elizabeth, Husen, Layla, Sosnicki, Luke, Harris, Rachel
The Second Circuit recently joined a growing number of federal courts to decide when a data breach of personally identifiable information (“PII”) is actionable. According to the Second Circuit, plaintiffs…