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Data Breach
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Risk and Recovery
English High Court Clarifies Appropriate Causes of Action in Data Claim Where Defendant Was a Victim of Third-Party Cyber-Attack
By Steven Baker, Vishnu V. Shankar, Julia Bihary
In the recent and significant Warren v DSG Retail Ltd [2021] EWHC 2168 (QB) decision the High Court in England clarified the limited circumstances in which claims for breach of confidence, misuse…
Proskauer on Privacy
English High Court Clarifies Appropriate Causes of Action in Data Claim Where Defendant Was a Victim of Third-Party Cyber-Attack
By Steven Baker, Vishnu V. Shankar, Julia Bihary
In the recent and significant Warren v DSG Retail Ltd [2021] EWHC 2168 (QB) decision the High Court in England clarified the limited circumstances in which claims for breach of…
Data Protection Report
Connecticut tightens its data breach notification laws
By David Kitchen (US), Alexis Wilpon (US)
Effective October 1, 2021, an amendment[1] to the Connecticut General Statute concerning data privacy breaches, Section 36a-701b, will impact notification obligations in several significant ways. The amendment: Expands the definition…
InfoTrack Twenty
First response steps after a security breach at your firm
By Lindsey Dean
The unthinkable has happened. A security breach at your law firm. Now what? Your firm will need to take immediate, decisive action in response to the security breach. There are…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Data Breach Probes, Suits Will Test T-Mobile’s Cyber Coverage–CPW’s Ericka Johnson Talks to Law360
CPW has been covering the T-Mobile data event litigations and Law360 is now reporting that “T-Mobile’s cyberinsurance coverage could be stretched by a recent data breach that has already spawned…
ComplexDiscovery
[Legal Education Webcast] Information Governance, Data Privacy, and Data Breach Exposure Mitigation
By Rob Robinson
ditor’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.…
Privacy World
Pleading a Data Incident Without More Is Not Sufficient to Survive a Motion to Dismiss
By Amy Doolittle, Angelo Carosio
Earlier this week, in the context of a data incident involving a health care company, an Arizona federal court determined that plaintiffs had Article III standing but then went on…
Password Protected
Another Company Loses a Data Breach Investigation Work Product Claim
By Tom Spahn
One might think that any company reasonably anticipates litigation after suffering a data breach, so the work product doctrine would almost inevitably protect its data breach investigation. But only a…
Data Counsel
Effective Oct. 1, 2021: Connecticut Expands Data Breach Notification Statute
By Benjamin Wanger, Elana Weinblatt
On June 16, 2021, the Connecticut General Assembly adopted an expanded version of Connecticut’s data breach notification statute (2021 CT H.B. 5310 (NS)). Through this expansion, Connecticut’s data breach notification…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery Blog
Every day another privacy breach as we learn that 15 Million email addresses and related personal data were exposed!
By Peter Vogel
BankInfosSecurity.com reported that “Anonymous "press release" announcing the Epik data breach…More than 15 million email addresses and accompanying personal details have been leaked online under the banner of Anonymous.” The…