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Insider Threats: The Overlooked Risks of Departing Employees and Sensitive Data Theft

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/21/2025

Insider threats continue to present a significant challenge for organizations of all sizes. One particularly concerning scenario involves employees who leave an organization and impermissibly take or download sensitive...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/12/2023

Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

Genova Burns LLC on 9/14/2022

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a putative class action suit led by a former employee of a company that suffered a ransomware attack, leading to her sensitive information being released onto the Dark...more

The Perils of Well-Intentioned Deception: Insider Trading Case Highlights Challenges Facing Public Companies

Jones Day on 7/16/2018

The Situation: Despite Equifax's use of a cover story to keep employees from learning it was the victim of a serious data breach, a then-employee allegedly figured it out and made illegal securities trades based on the...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/12/2018

Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more

Security Breached – Tips for Mitigating and Protecting Private Information from Inside and Outside Threats

Fisher Phillips on 3/26/2018

If you’re going to demote or terminate your in-house tech expert, you should plan that event very carefully. Our firm is now helping a client with damage control and data recovery upon discovering – a week after their...more

Congressional Report Finds FDIC Data Breach Response Obstructed Congressional Oversight

King & Spalding on 8/4/2016

On July 12, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (the “Science Committee”) released a report regarding its investigation of an October 2015 data breach and the subsequent response of...more

Pennsylvania Federal Court Finds Standing in Data Breach Class Action

Cozen O'Connor on 10/14/2015

The debate over standing in data breach litigation is gaining more attention lately. While many courts have hesitated to find standing prior to lost personally identifiable information (PII) actually being misused, the U.S....more

A Different Kind of Data Breach—Loss or Disclosure of Company Information by Employee Theft

Carlton Fields on 3/11/2015

Data breaches are all over the news, but those stories most often cover high-profile cybersecurity breaches that result from the malicious efforts of hackers or other outsiders. Just as insidious, and more likely to occur,...more

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