New Year’s is a time to look back on the happenings of the year and focus on the lessons and reminders those events have provided. For our final newsletter of the year, we’d like to share with you our top 10 most read posts...more
12/31/2018
/ Banking Sector ,
Blockchain ,
Connected Items ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Hackers ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Wells Fargo
This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report that outlined cyber incidents that nine public companies had experienced, causing fraudulent losses totaling more than $100 million. The...more
10/22/2018
/ Anthem Insurance ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Drones ,
Email ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Internal Controls ,
Microsoft ,
New Legislation ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Social Media ,
State and Local Government ,
Surveillance
As we previously noted, Facebook originally announced a breach late last month, where hackers took advantage of a code vulnerability in the website’s “View As” feature, to access user’s data. ...more
10/18/2018
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Facebook ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hackers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Social Media ,
Social Networks
As many of our readers know, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes significant obligations and responsibilities on entities with regard to data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European...more
10/1/2018
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Liability Insurance ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Policy Terms ,
Risk Management
We all remember Kronos—the malicious malware that was sold by Russian underground forums in 2014 for $7,000. If you bought it, you were promised updates and development of new modules. The Kronos developers recently released...more
9/17/2018
/ Adidas ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Hurricane Season ,
Malware ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Scams ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
On June 28, 2018, Adidas released a statement announcing that it recently “became aware that an unauthorized party claims to have acquired limited data associated with certain Adidas consumers.”...more
9/13/2018
/ Adidas ,
Breach of Contract ,
Data Breach ,
Financial Fraud ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Implied Contract ,
Negligence ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Removal ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
We reported last week that a spyware maker recently compromised users’ and victims’ sensitive information. Since that time, another spyware maker, mSpy, which holds itself out as having over a million users employing its...more
9/11/2018
/ Banking Sector ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Framework ,
Data Breach ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Hackers ,
Insurance Industry ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NYDFS ,
Pending Legislation ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Spyware ,
State and Local Government ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Yahoo!
We previously noted that in late 2016, Yahoo disclosed that it had experienced multiple data breaches relating to what turned out to be roughly three billion of its accounts. ...more
9/7/2018
/ Amended Complaints ,
Article III ,
Breach of Contract ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Hackers ,
Implied Covenants ,
Leave to Amend ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Standing ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL) ,
Yahoo!
As we noted earlier this year, Saks Fifth Avenue LLC, Saks Incorporated, and Lord & Taylor previously disclosed, on April 1, 2018, that some of their customers’ personal information may have been compromised in a data breach....more
Cisco Talos has discovered a new menace to iPhone users—a sophisticated malware campaign targeting iPhones to trick users into downloading an open-source Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution that gives the hackers control...more
7/23/2018
/ Baseball ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Drones ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Event Tickets ,
Health Care Providers ,
iPhone ,
Malware ,
Medical Devices ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Popular
Russians Continue to Attack U.S. Energy and Power Sectors -
Late last week, a joint statement by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Russian government has been...more
3/23/2018
/ Cambridge Analytica ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Driverless Cars ,
Drones ,
Energy Sector ,
Exports ,
Facebook ,
Hackers ,
Online Travel Vendors ,
Orbitz ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Russia ,
Trump Administration ,
Uber ,
UK Data Protection Act ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems