A spate of recent ransomware attacks illustrates the increasingly difficult calculations that businesses face following the theft or encryption of their data....more
On December 13, the software and service provider SolarWinds announced that its Orion software platform had been the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack that may have resulted in malicious code being pushed to as many as...more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) teamed up with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to issue a joint warning of cyber-attacks emanating from Iran and targeting U.S. federal agencies and...more
9/21/2020
/ Corporate Governance ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Protection ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
NCSC ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Workplace Privacy
As we previously reported, Capital One Financial Corporation announced in July 2019 a major data security breach when an individual gained unauthorized access to personal information about Capital One credit card customers. ...more
8/14/2020
/ Capital One ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Fines ,
Hackers ,
OCC ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Settlement Agreements
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) made headlines when several hacks of confidential data came to light in 2015, intrusions that compromised the personal data of over 20 million individuals. On July 21, 2019, in...more
7/16/2019
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Corporate Counsel ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Standing
An obscure federal law called the SAFETY Act recently captured national headlines when MGM Resorts International invoked it in a series of pre-emptive, declaratory judgment law suits against the victims of the 2017 Route 91...more
Yesterday, the United States indicted two Iranian hackers for their roles in a series of major ransomware attacks that started in 2016 and lasted almost three years. The attacks crippled schools, hospitals, the private...more
Six months after a massive data breach at credit reporting company Equifax, Inc. handed hackers the personal information of nearly 150 million Americans, the fallout continues. Equifax first disclosed in September that...more
With new developments regarding Uber Technologies Inc.’s 2016 data breach coming out almost daily, lawsuits against the company continue to pile-up. We previously reported that within days of Uber disclosing the data theft...more
12/5/2017
/ Breach of Contract ,
Class Action ,
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ,
Consumer Fraud ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Data Breach ,
Hackers ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
Negligence ,
Pending Litigation ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ridesharing ,
Sharing Economy ,
Uber ,
Unjust Enrichment