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Data Breach
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Internet, IT & e-Discovery Blog
$4.24M Now the Average Cost Per Data Breach!
By Peter Vogel
DarkReading.com reported that “Data breach costs have reached a new record high of $4.24 million per incident, representing a 10% increase from the year prior — the largest single year…
Employment Law Letter
A Robust Cybersecurity Program Can Now Be Your Best Defense in a Lawsuit
By William J. Roberts, Stephanie Gomes-Ganhão
As data breaches become a fact of life for both businesses and consumers, barely a news cycle goes by without a story of another successful hack, ransomware, theft of personal…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
$4.24M Now the Average Cost Per Data Breach!
By Peter Vogel
DarkReading.com reported that “Data breach costs have reached a new record high of $4.24 million per incident, representing a 10% increase from the year prior — the largest single year…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Another Court Deems Forensic Investigation Report Not Privileged
On July 22, 2021, a Magistrate Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania ordered Rutter’s to produce an investigative report prepared by a security consultant…
Med Law Blog
UPMC Finally Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $2.7 Million
UPMC’s employment records were hacked by criminals in 2014. A civil class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of approximately 66,000 employees, and criminal cases were filed by federal prosecutors…
Data Protection Report
Another One Bites the Dust: Court once again finds data breach forensic report isn’t protected by privilege
By Chris Cwalina (US), Ashley Zatloukal (US), Anna Rudawski (US)
On July 22, 2021, a federal court in Pennsylvania held that an investigative report created by Kroll (the “Kroll Report”), the defendant’s third party cybersecurity consultant, and related communications were…
CyberAdviser
Another Federal Court Orders Production of Data Breach Forensic Report
By Gregory P. Szewczyk, Philip N. Yannella, Mo Pham-Khan, Emily Klode
Following in the footsteps of the Eastern District of Virginia’s Capital One decision last year and the District of D.C.’s Clark Hill decision earlier this year, the Eastern District of…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Florida Unemployment Benefit Site Breached
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) recently announced that it discovered on July 16, 2021 that its online unemployment benefit system, CONNECT was compromised, potentially affecting personal information of…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery Blog
AIG Must Defend Landry’s in a Data Breach From 2014-15!
By Peter Vogel
My good friend Judy Greenwald reported at BusinessInsurance.com that “After AIG refused the claim, Landry’s filed suit, and the U.S. District Court in Houston ruled in the insurer’s favor and…
Privacy World
BREAKING NEWS: A Third Federal Court Orders Production of Data Incident Forensic Report and Related Communications Over Privilege Objections
By Kristin Bryan, Angelo Carosio
One developing area of the law that send shivers down the spine of data privacy litigators is a growing number of federal courts holding that the attorney-client and work product…