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Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2019 #2

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Marriott International Inc. (Marriott) has released new numbers relating to its Starwood Hotel’s reservation database by stating that more than 5 million passport numbers were stolen in the database. ...more

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Neiman Marcus Settles Data Breach Litigation for $1.5 Million

Neiman Marcus Group LLC has settled an investigation of its 2013 data breach with 43 states and the District of Columbia for $1.5 million. The data breach involved 370,000 credit cards, where 9,200 of the cards were used in a...more

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Credit Card Breaches

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For most retailers credit cards are the primary form in which payments are made. Accepting credit cards, however, carries significant data security risks and potential legal liability. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Forever 21 Latest Retailer to Suffer Credit Card Breach

Forever 21 has warned customers who used a credit card at any of its stores between March and October 2017 that their credit card may have been compromised....more

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Credit Card Breaches: A How-To Guide

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For most retailers credit cards are the primary form of the payments that they receive. Accepting credit cards, however, carries significant data security risks and potential legal liability....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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We’ve talked a fair amount about the switch to chip & pin card systems over the past few years. But how about a lack of cards altogether? Because that’s what the banks have in mind....more

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Reduce Potential Liability for Data Security Breaches by Negotiating Coverage in Payment Processing Agreements

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Credit cards are the primary form of payment received by most retailers. In order to process a credit card, a retailer must enter into an agreement with a bank and a payment processor. Payment processing agreements often have...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

New FTC Data Breach Response Guidelines

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Cybersecurity should always be at the top of any retailer’s priority list—and even more so as the holiday shopping season gets underway. To that end, the Federal Trade Commission’s newly-released Data Breach Response...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

How to Select a Qualified Security Assessor (“QSA”)

Retailers that accept credit cards are typically required by the payment card brands to show that they are in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards or “PCI DSS” at least once a year. How a retailer...more

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Credit Card Data Breaches: Protecting Your Company from the Hidden Surprises

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Part I: Assessing the Risk to a Retailer from a Credit Card Data Breach - Debit and credit cards are now the primary form of retail payment. One source estimates that 60% of all retail transactions involve a payment card...more

Perkins Coie

Could a Vendor’s Lax Info Security Ruin Your Holiday Sales? Seven Preventative Steps for Retailers

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Many of the largest retailer data security breaches have been caused or enabled by the acts or omissions of retailers’ vendors, such as the widely publicized incident at Target Corporation. Several such breaches occurred...more

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American Thrift Stores announces data breach

American Thrift Stores announced this week that like other retailers, it has been hit with a security breach “that occurred through software used by a third-party service provider” that allowed “criminals from Easter Europe”...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Retail Industry EMV Compliance Deadline Arrives Today - Credit Card Fraud Liability Shifts

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Starting today, October 1, 2015, a substantial portion of the liability associated with in-store fraudulent credit card purchases shifts from credit card issuers, such as banks or credit unions, to retail merchants. Credit...more

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New Credit Card Security Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Hardly a week goes by without a news report of a new cyberattack. As any consumer affected by fraud knows, the harm is real. The impact on businesses, government, and other targets is also real, and includes monetary harm...more

Carlton Fields

Still a Target: Court Certifies Bank Class Claims Against Retailer Following Data Breach

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Although Target has tentatively settled consumer data breach class action claims, the retailer remains in the crosshairs of the plaintiffs’ class action bar. On September 15, a Minnesota federal district court certified a...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Credit Card Fraud Liability Shift Looms for Retail Industry

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On October 1, 2015, a substantial portion of the liability associated with in-store fraudulent credit card purchases will shift from credit card issuers, such as banks or credit unions, to retail merchants. Credit card...more

BakerHostetler

2015 BakerHostetler Incident Response Report Deeper Dive—Retailer Liability Arising from Stolen Payment Cards

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We released the inaugural BakerHostetler Data Security Incident Response Report, which provides insights generated from the review of more than 200 incidents that our attorneys advised on in 2014. Over the next four weeks, we...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Tuesday - November 2014

Welcome to the first Tuesday in November — don’t forget to vote tomorrow! Chip-and-Pin Not Likely “Cure-All” - There is good news in the world of retail data breaches: US merchants are finally moving away from...more

Blank Rome LLP

California Attorney General Releases Data Breach Report with Recommendations for Retailers and the Health Care Sector

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On October 28, 2014, the California Attorney General (“AG”) released its second annual report detailing the security breaches reported to the AG’s office in 2013, and provided recommendations to both the industry and...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Release of the iPhone 6 — Is Apple Riding the Security Wave?

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Another month brings another reported massive data breach. On September 8, 2014, Home Depot confirmed that its payment data systems had been breached, potentially impacting customers using payment cards at the retailer’s US...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

California Considers Data Breach Bill Imposing Significant New Obligations on Businesses

Who should be responsible for paying for the costs of data breaches? - Reacting to the recent high-profile security lapses at major retailers, California lawmakers are considering a bill that would shift the burden of...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

On the 11th Day of Privacy, class counsel served on me……

. . . a data breach class action. Hackers and plaintiffs’ lawyers could combine to make 2014 the year when class actions concerning theft of sensitive information proliferate. On this 11th Day of Privacy, we look...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Are You a Target?

As has been widely reported, the popular retail giant Target announced yesterday that it suffered a data breach impacting approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts used in Target stores across the country...more

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