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Data Breach Class Actions in Australia

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Australia has started to observe a rise in the number of data breach class actions being investigated and filed, although there has not yet been a successful data breach class action there. A range of factors are at play...more

White and Williams LLP

Marriott’s Starwood Data Breach Could Expose 500 Million Customers

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On November 30, 2018 Marriott International announced that hackers gained “unauthorized access” to the Starwood brand reservation database, potentially compromising the accounts of approximately 500 million guests. According...more

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Yahoo’s $35M SEC Settlement: Takeaways from the First Enforcement Action for Failure to Disclose a Data Breach

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on April 24, 2018, that Yahoo! — now known as Altaba — agreed to pay a $35 million penalty to settle claims that the company failed to timely disclose a 2014 data breach...more

Carlton Fields

Expect Focus - Volume I, March 2018

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EXPECTFOCUS® is a quarterly review of developments in the insurance and financial services industry, provided on a complimentary basis to clients and friends of Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, P.A. ...more

BakerHostetler

The Weekly Privacy Rewind

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Class Actions - Facebook Cannot Evade Suit Under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act Even Where No Proof of Harm - In separate rulings handed down last week in the Northern District of California, the court...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2018 #4

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U.S. Estimates that Cyber Hacks Cost Up to $109 Billion in 20 - The Council for Economic Advisors (CEA) issued a report this month, entitled “The Cost of Malicious Cyber Activity to the U.S. Economy,” which concludes that...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Equifax Data Breach Highlights SEC Disclosure Obligations for Public Companies in the Wake of Cybersecurity Attacks

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On September 7, 2017, Equifax, one of the country’s three primary credit reporting bureaus, announced it had suffered a major cybersecurity breach that could potentially affect half of the U.S. population. According to the...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Advertising Litigation Report: Vol. 2, No. 2 - Consumer Privacy and Data Security

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Judge Trims Proposed Class Action Over Wendy’s Data Breach - Torres v. Wendy’s Int’l, LLC, No. 16-cv-0210 (PGB) (DCI) (M.D. Fla. Mar. 21, 2017). A U.S. district court judge in Florida trimmed a proposed class action...more

Carlton Fields

EXPECT FOCUS: Onboard Technology, NAIC Cybersecurity, DOL, ACA Litigation, SEC Regulation (Vol. III, Summer 2015)

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In This Issue: IN THE SPOTLIGHT - - Your Data Breach Collided With My Personal Injury Coverage LIFE INSURANCE - - Phantom Injury Dooms “Shadow Insurance” Case - Latest NAIC Cybersecurity News ...more

King & Spalding

Cybersecurity: The Next Big Wave in Securities Litigation?

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News broke this week about significant cybersecurity breaches at many U.S. corporations that raises the possibility of a new wave of SEC enforcement actions, class actions, and derivative lawsuits. A front page New York Times...more

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