A massive data breach hit one of the country’s largest education software providers. According to EducationWeek, PowerSchool provides school software products to more than 16,000 customers, largely K-12 schools, that serve 50...more
Businesses suffering a data breach affecting Pennsylvania residents may have new compliance obligations pursuant to a recent amendment to the Commonwealth's data breach notification law. Earlier this year, Pennsylvania...more
On June 28, 2024, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an amendment to Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act into law. The amended law, which includes significant changes to the Keystone State’s...more
The best practice approach to effectively handling a data security incident starts with a proactive response plan. But when the inevitable occurs, will your plan stand up to the test? Join our panel of experts as they discuss...more
It well known that there are, unfortunately, many data breaches that frequently put private citizens’ data privacy in jeopardy. States have passed a variety of statutes aimed at addressing this problem in an attempt to...more
At the end of March, Washington, D.C. signed the Security Breach Protection Amendment Act of 2019, which adds some significant changes to D.C.’s existing data breach law, first enacted in 2007. The law is projected to take...more
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no 5. (May 2020) - Ambry Genetics, based in Aliso Viejo, California, has reported a data breach involving nearly 233,000 people. In its statement, the company said it identified “unauthorized...more
As of January 1, 2020, California will become the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages between $100-$750 per incident, even in the absence of any...more
Arizona-based Banner Health has agreed to settle for up to $6 million a class action case filed against it following a 2016 incident that compromised the personal information of 3 million individuals....more
When the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) takes effect in January 2020, California will become the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages of...more
On July 31, 2019, Governor Carney signed the Delaware Insurance Data Security Act (formerly, HB 174) into law. Based on the National Association Of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law, the...more
We know we told you yesterday about the Equifax settlement and how you could make a claim in connection with the breach. Well, consumers whose personal information was compromised in Equifax’s massive 2017 data breach are in...more
Many readers have reached out to learn about the Capital One data breach and how it affects us. If you haven’t been watching the story unfold as closely as I have, here is a summary of what happened, what information was...more
Equifax has agreed to pay $575 million to settle consumer as well as state and federal regulatory claims for its 2017 data breach. This is the largest data breach settlement to date. ...more
Security researchers have warned municipalities repeatedly about how they are being targeted with ransomware, that they are at high risk, and the need to make data security a high priority. Please see full Publication blow...more
On April 11, 2019, significant revisions to Massachusetts’ data breach law – Chapter 93H – take effect. The revised statute requires more detailed notifications to both the Commonwealth and affected consumers, and mandates...more
Massachusetts’ breach notice law has been amended, requiring companies who suffer a data breach to provide more information to the Attorney General about the incident. The law will go into effect in a month, on April 11,...more
As of April 11, 2019, Massachusetts will require organizations suffering a data breach that involves a resident’s social security number to provide credit monitoring services (CM Services) at no cost to the resident. If the...more
New Data Breach Law Requires Free Credit Monitoring for Massachusetts Consumers - Recent amendments to the Massachusetts data security breach law will require any person – including, in relevant part, any bank or any bank...more
The Governor of Massachusetts has just signed into law amendments to the state’s data breach notification law. The amendments will go into effect April 11, 2019. Under the amended law, companies whose breaches involve Social...more
There is a little-known provision from a new federal law that will most likely impact your hiring practices and your standard hiring documents—and it kicked in last Friday. As of September 21, all employers must update their...more
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that, beginning today, consumers concerned about identity theft or data breaches can place credit freezes and one year fraud alerts with the three nationwide credit bureaus for free....more
Organizations are not generally required to offer services to consumers whose information was involved in a breach. Nonetheless, many organizations choose to offer credit reports (i.e., a list of the open credit accounts...more
In an age where data is widely available and almost everything is stored online, data breaches are becoming more common, and the outcomes of cases involving data breaches are unpredictable. Data involved in a breach can range...more
A bi-partisan privacy and data security bill, which will significantly impact companies with North Carolina employees, is in the works. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Appropriations Chairman of...more