Privacy law is a hot topic for legislatures in the United States at both the state and federal levels. With the advent of influential laws from international governments, including the European Union, the lack of significant...more
9/20/2021
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Ransomware has become the fastest growing type of cybercrime facing businesses today. In 2021, loss values were estimated to have reached at least 57 times those in 2015, exceeding $20 billion. Data and privacy issues are so...more
6/17/2021
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The number of reported U.S. data breaches tracked through June 30, 2017 hit a half-year record high of 791. This represents a significant jump of 29% over 2016 figures during the same time period. At this pace, it is...more
8/9/2017
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We are pleased to provide you with this edition of the firm’s Product Liability & Complex Litigation Update. This edition contains several articles by our attorneys that we hope you find interesting and informative from...more
3/31/2017
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TX Supreme Court
Removes the Encryption Safe Harbor, Limits the Timing of Notice, and Expands “Unauthorized Persons” -
Effective July 1, 2016, Tennessee becomes the first state to remove the encryption safe harbor from its data breach...more
4/20/2016
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The data breach class action lawsuit filed against grocery store retail chain SuperValu Inc. (“SuperValu”) was put on the shelf by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on January 7, 2016. The plaintiffs...more
2/23/2016
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The arts and crafts retail chain Michael Stores Inc. (“Michaels”) received a late holiday gift in the form of a dismissal of a data breach class action lawsuit. On December 28, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
On November 13, 2015, an administrative law judge dismissed the FTC’s enforcement action against LabMD for its data security breach in 2008. This appears to be the first dismissal of a FTC data security enforcement action....more
The importance of retaining outside counsel after a data breach was recently underscored in the Target data breach class-action litigation filed by the financial institutions. Plaintiffs filed a motion to compel Target to...more
Rarely does a day go by without news of a data security breach. According to the Identify Theft Resource Center, there have been a total of 447 data breaches to date this year, which represents a 20.5% increase over the same...more