Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10
Drafting Consumer Breach Notices — From a Litigation Perspective - Unauthorized Access Podcast
IP|Trend: Dust up After the Breach
Hot Topics Roundtable for Fund Managers - Cybersecurity, Valuation, and More
Whether the game is football, baseball, hockey, or Indy Car racing, no team goes into their major championship matchup without training. Companies need to train as well if they intend to operate on the internet and expect to...more
MIT Report Details New Cybersecurity Risks - “Cloud misconfigurations, more sophisticated ransomware, and vendor exploitation attacks are contributing to rising cyberattacks.” Why this is important: Worldwide spending...more
On February 14, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued its annual reports to Congress detailing its actions to enforce the privacy, security, and breach notification...more
This is a deceptively simple question — risk managers rightfully expect to know the scope of their coverages when they build their insurance programs. Unfortunately, judicial interpretation of common policy terms can turn...more
Your company was hacked. You feel panic, embarrassment, anger, fear and confusion. But you must act quickly, logically and decisively to stop the bleeding and protect your business, your customers and your employees. The good...more
At the recent In-House Counsel Seminar, three Ward and Smith attorneys presented a realistic role play response to an incidence of wire fraud, addressing red flags associated with fraudulent communications, corporate incident...more
On July 5, 2023, the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine following the company’s discovery that an unauthorized party was able to get into an...more
On June 30, 2023, Mount Desert Island Hospital (“MDIH”) filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights after discovering that an unauthorized party had gained...more
On January 24, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with EyeMed Vision Care LLC based on shortcomings in the company’s data security procedures. The problems were discovered during the state’s...more
FTC Announces Regulatory Priorities for 2022 - On December 10, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published its Statement of Regulatory Priorities (“Announcement”) for 2022. The FTC’s priorities for the coming year...more
Last week’s news that the Federal Trade Commission is taking steps to begin rulemaking on consumer privacy and artificial intelligence drew plenty of attention from privacy professionals, and suggests 2022 could be an...more
Just as the year is winding down and many HR professionals are looking forward to well-deserved breaks away from work, Kronos announced that it was the victim of ransomware and that UKC Workforce Central, UKG TeleStaff,...more
Sabre Corporation, the travel technology company, agreed to pay $2.4 million as a settlement with twenty-seven (27) State Attorneys General for a 2017 data breach involving hotel booking services....more
Data breaches continue to be an unfortunate risk that companies face with increasing frequency. In this podcast, Rebecca Bennett, Stephen Riga, and Justin Tarka discuss data breaches from both a U.S. and EU perspective,...more
The health care industry is racing to adopt cutting-edge technology to provide patients with the best treatment possible at the lowest possible cost. ...more
The Arizona State Legislature is considering proposed legislation that, if enacted, would significantly change the requirements for how Arizona entities respond to data breaches....more
Primarily motivated by the several recent massive data breaches, Senate Democrats recently introduced a bill geared toward protecting Americans’ personal information against cyber attacks and to ensure timely notification and...more
FBI Issues Flash Alert on Apache Struts Vulnerability - The Apache Struts vulnerability has been mentioned frequently in the media over the past month, as it is believed to have been involved in one of the largest and most...more
Equifax, one of the three nationwide credit bureaus that track and rate the financial history of consumers, announced in September that it had suffered a data breach exposing personal information of up to 143 million...more
CoPilot Provider Support Services, Inc. (CoPilot), which provides health care companies with billing and insurance support services, has settled allegations by the New York Attorney General of failing to notify individuals of...more
On March 21, 2017, the Attorney General (“AG”) of New York, Eric T. Schneiderman, announced that his office received a record number of data breach notices in 2016. The total number of breach notifications received by the...more
In the past several years, a huge increase has occurred in the number of electronic attacks in the United States using ransomware, a form of malware that targets and encrypts critical data and systems for the purpose of...more
The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) has published an online list of data breach notifications issued each year to Massachusetts residents since 2007, the inception of the...more
It seems like managing data breaches has become a part of doing business these days. From the October denial of service attack on Dyn (a company that provides core internet services to companies like Twitter, Spotify and...more
Trump International Hotels Management has agreed to pay the State of New York $50,000 for two data breaches that exposed over 70,000 customer credit card numbers and other personal information, according to New York Attorney...more