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How to Defend Against Identity Theft This Tax Season

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In recent years, identity theft cases have surged, especially during tax season. According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in 2022, the federal agency identified and prevented USD 5.7 billion in tax-related fraud, and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

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CISA and Partners Update the #StopRansomware Guide, Developed through the Joint Ransomware Task Force

On May 23, 2023, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) published an updated version of the #StopRansomware...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

5 Tips for Reducing Identity Theft Risk

Identity theft and cybercrime are now a multi-billion dollar industry causing severe harm to the individuals affected and the institutions we trust. In recognition of this unfortunate truth and Identity Theft Awareness Week,...more

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DFPI Warns Of Investment Adviser Identity Theft

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The internet facilitates crime in the same way it facilitates legitimate business - it lowers transaction costs.  With the internet, a fraudster can steal someone's identity and then use that purloined identity to reach...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2022

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CYBERSECURITY - CISA/FBI Advisory Warns of Destructive Malware Used Against Ukraine - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued a joint advisory this week alerting organizations of...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 5

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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

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Privacy Tip #313 – Data Breaches Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon

According to The Identity Theft Research Center (ITRC), data breaches in 2021 surpassed the previous record year of 2020 by 17 percent. The incidents ranged from the theft of cryptocurrency (Livecoin went out of business...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Staying Secure in the New Hybrid Workplace

Most observers believe that the legal profession is rapidly moving toward so-called “hybrid workplaces,” a term office managers use to describe a mixed-work environment that spans brick-and-mortar law offices, home offices,...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

The Era of Retail Biometric AI Crime Has Begun

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Each new technology seems to offer creative tools for both criminals and law enforcement.  Telegraphs and telephones spawned wire and phone fraud. The era of digital networking ushered in the age of hacking. Digital banking...more

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SEC Issues New Risk Alert on “Credential Stuffing” Attacks

On September 15, 2020, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert highlighting the recent uptick in “credential stuffing” cyber-attacks against SEC-registered investment advisors...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020

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Researchers at Sentinel One and Dragos have detected malicious code, called EKANS or Snake, that has been designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), including those of oil refineries, manufacturing...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Predictions for Intrusions and Scams in 2020

The predictions set forth in Experian’s Seventh Annual Data Breach Industry Forecast make sense and are worth a read. We are starting to see these types of intrusions and scams, and our experience is that once these types of...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: The Real Threat of Synthetic Identity Fraud

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Synthetic identity fraud (SIF) is a recent phenomenon that scammers have used to circumvent the increasing awareness of traditional identity fraud. Instead of stealing a real person’s identity as with traditional identity...more

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Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 5: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan

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The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to...more

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Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 4: Recognize Identity Theft

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The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #198: Cybersecurity for Tax Professionals

This week, I was honored to again have the opportunity to participate as a speaker at the Internal Revenue Service’s Nationwide Tax Forum 2019 in Washington, D.C. Through a generous grant provided by the American Coalition...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

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Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

The Importance of Protecting the Last Four Digits of Your Social Security Number

We all know that it is important to protect our social security number. But sometimes companies still try to use the last four digits of our social security numbers as identifiers or to verify identity in some way....more

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AICPA Survey Shows U.S. Adults Worried About Identity Theft and Financial Fraud and Concerned Businesses Can’t Protect Their Data

A new Harris Poll for the American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA), which called 1006 U.S. adults for the report, shows interesting statistics regarding American adults’ attitudes and fears about identity theft and financial loss...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The Warning Behind the Numbers: New York’s 2017 Data Breach Report

On its face, last week’s report that the number of data breaches reported last year to New York’s Attorney General spiked to an all-time high of 1,583 – up 23 percent from 2016 – was not good news....more

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Stolen Tax Returns? Virginia Seeks a Solution.

Did someone steal your tax return? You are not alone. Indeed, the rise in tax-related identity theft has been well documented. In 2015, the FTC reported a 50% increase in identity theft complaints. A primary cause for...more

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Notable New State Privacy and Data Security Laws – Part Two

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This is the second in a two-part series addressing recent developments in state privacy and data security laws. This article addresses new laws about student privacy, enforcement/ punishment for data privacy and security...more

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Eighth Circuit Remands Proposed Settlement in Target Data Breach Class Action

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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded a $10 million settlement in the Target data breach class action on the grounds that the district court had not rigorously analyzed the propriety of the class certification. ...more

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Asset Protection Wake Up Call: Data Security Top Concern for High Net Worth Investors

A recent study asked high net worth investors which of the following issues they were most concerned about: terrorism, data security, or a major illness. The most prevalent response might surprise you. Seventy-two percent...more

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