No Password Required: SVP at SpyCloud Labs, Former Army Investigator, and Current Breakfast Champion
Fintech Focus Podcast | Responding to a Cyber Attack – Key Considerations for GCs and CISOs
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability and Reduce the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response
Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Human Beings: Cybersecurity's Most Fragile Attack Surface
FBI Lockbit Takedown: What Does It Mean for Your Company?
Privacy Officer's Roadmap: Data Breach and Ransomware Defense – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Decoding Cyber Threats: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in a Digital World — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
No Password Required: Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, a DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador, and a World-Class Awkward Hugger
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Life With GDPR – Lessons Learned from The Singtel Opus Data Breach
No Password Required: Founder and Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, CEO of the Cyber Marketing Firm Katzcy, and Someone Who Values Perseverance Over Perfection
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home
No Password Required: Threat Intelligence Analyst at Recorded Future, the Ransomware Sommelier, and a Guy With a Mildly Exciting Expense Account
Compliance & Disaster Preparedness
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 157: Sarah Glover, Maynard Nexsen Cybersecurity Attorney
Overview of Cybersecurity in Government Contracts
Episode 282 -- CISO and CCOs -- The Evolving Partnership
MGM Resorts agreed to pay $45 million to settle over a dozen class action lawsuits concerning 2019 and 2023 data breaches. A federal court in Nevada preliminarily approved the settlement, which, according to lawyers, covers...more
This past July, the City of Columbus, Ohio experienced a significant data breach. Hackers were able to breach Columbus’ network and gained access to private information of city employees and residents. Initially, the City...more
New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James and global movie theater operator National Amusements, Inc. (National) settled a lawsuit stemming from a 2022 data breach reported by National, which affected 82,128 National...more
Oak Valley Hospital, located in Oakdale, California, reached a settlement in a class action related to a 2023 data breach. On July 18, 2023, Oak Valley detected suspicious activity on its IT systems. Pursuant to the forensic...more
Elemetal LLC faces a data breach class action resulting from its alleged failure to implement appropriate security measures, which led to a 2023 breach of approximately 13,000 customers’ personal information. Elemetal is a...more
This is the second article in our two-part series on Cybersecurity in the Age of Industry 4.0, focusing on the legal implications and potential liabilities manufacturers face from cyberattacks, as well as practical...more
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed legislation on May 22, 2024, that will shield private entities from class action lawsuits stemming from a cybersecurity event unless the event was caused by willful, wanton, or gross...more
PharMerica and its subsidiary Amerita’s Specialty Infusion Services (Amerita) are already facing class action lawsuits after patients received a September 5, 2023, data breach notification letter. When the businesses detected...more
In October 2022, Advocate Aurora Health notified 3 million individuals of a data breach resulting from its use of tracking pixels on its website for tracking website visitor activity. Now, this month, Advocate Aurora Health...more
The modern “Information Age” has been defined by rapidly increasing interconnectivity and dependence on the internet by consumers and businesses alike. One side effect of these technological advances has been the increasing...more
The Eleventh Circuit’s recent ruling in In re Brinker Data Incident Litigation (“Brinker”) is the first time that a federal circuit court has ruled on a lower court’s grant of class certification in a data breach class action...more
2022 continued to be positive for institutional clients involved in privacy breach class actions, with the Ontario Court of Appeal refusing to expand the tort of intrusion upon seclusion to impose liability on institutions...more
ACTS Retirement Services, Inc. (ACTS), a non-profit corporation that manages retirement communities, suffered a data breach in April 2022, which led to unauthorized access to thousands of current and former employees’...more
The Data Security Incident Response Report features insights and metrics from 1,270+ incidents that members of the firm’s DADM Practice Group helped clients manage in 2021. This episode takes us deeper into class...more
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) recently settled a data breach class action for $450,000 stemming from a 2020 data breach that led to the compromise of about 36,000 UPMC patients....more
Recently, San Diego Family Care (SDFC) settled a class action related to a 2020 data breach for $1 million. The class includes all SDFC patients (or their parents/guardians) who received a breach notification in May 2021....more
In the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California last week, SuperCare Health, Inc. was hit with another proposed class action based on a data breach that allegedly compromised the personal and health...more
Last week, Mediant Communications Inc. (Mediant) settled a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York stemming from a 2019 data breach in which hackers accessed 200,000 individuals’...more
Two major U.S. financial institutions, Morgan Stanley and Capital One, recently agreed to resolve separate class action lawsuits by paying, in the aggregate, hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for massive data...more
A professional accounting firm in Illinois received an unwanted holiday “gift” in the form of a class action complaint stemming from its alleged failure to secure personally identifiable information (PII) and to timely notify...more
FabFitFun, a fashion and beauty subscription service, settled claims that it failed to adequately protect and secure consumer data resulting in a data breach for a sum of $625,000 in the U.S. District Court for the Central...more
Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more
Takeaway: Counsel for companies that suffer a data breach often hire an outside cybersecurity firm to remediate the breach and assist counsel in preparing for and defending against litigation. These companies typically take...more
PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. (PCS) was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit last week alleging that it discovered a data breach from a hacking attack in December 2019 but failed to notify the affected students until...more
The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, in Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18, recently dismissed an application for certification of a proposed class action resulting from a data breach because there was no evidence of harm...more