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Privacy Tip #441 – Identity Theft Statistics Increasing in 2025

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/25/2025

Unfortunately, identity theft continues to increase, and according to Identitytheft.org, the statistics are going to get worse in 2025. Some of the statistics cited by Identitytheft.org include: 1.4 million complaints of...more

Insider Threats: Potential Signs and Security Tips

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/21/2025

In recent news, New York’s Stram Center for Integrative Medicine reported a security incident involving an employee misusing a patient’s payment card information. According to a breach report filed with the U.S. Department of...more

Privacy Tip #435 – Threat Actors Go Retro: Using Snail Mail for Scams

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/14/2025

We have educated our readers about phishing, smishing, QRishing, and vishing scams, and now we’re warning you about what we have dubbed “snailing.” Yes, believe it or not, threat actors have gone retro and are using snail...more

NewsBank Hit with Class Action over Employee Data Breach

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/21/2025

Last week, a class action was filed against NewsBank, Inc., a Florida-based news database company, related to a 2024 breach of employee personal information. NewsBank provides a database of archived news publications...more

Privacy Tip #429 – Threat Actors Continue to Use QR Codes for Fraudulent Purposes

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/30/2025

We have repeatedly warned our readers about malicious QR codes and their use by threat actors. Threat actors are now using these codes to disguise packages as gifts....more

FAQs for Schools and Persons Affected By the PowerSchool Data Breach

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/13/2025

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

AI versus MFA

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/9/2025

Ask any chief information security officer (CISO), cyber underwriter or risk manager, or cybersecurity attorney about what controls are critical for protecting an organization’s information systems, you’ll likely find...more

Defending Data Breach Class Actions

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/19/2024

Class actions arising from data breach represented the fastest growing segment of class action filings. In 2023, more than 2000 class actions were filed, more than triple the amount filed in 2022. These cases were filed in...more

How to Defend Against Identity Theft This Tax Season

J.S. Held on 12/6/2024

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

National Public Data Hack Exposes Millions: Essential Steps to Safeguard Your Identity and Combat Fraud

Foley & Lardner LLP on 8/26/2024

The recent massive data breach at National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, has potentially compromised the personal information of millions, if not billions, of individuals, including their Social Security...more

Digital Dupe: How to Protect Against Identity Theft After Death

Foster Swift Collins & Smith on 8/8/2024

In the digital age, identity theft has taken on new and sinister forms, extending beyond the living to the deceased. When a loved one passes away, their identity doesn’t simply vanish; it lingers in both the digital realm and...more

Understanding Access vs. Acquisition - Dear Mary – Incidents + Investigations Cybersecurity Advice Column

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/25/2024

Each of the 50 states has its own definition of what constitutes a reportable data breach. For some, it requires “unauthorized access” to personal information. For others, it requires “unauthorized acquisition.” And then,...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/13/2024

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

FCC Expands Data Breach Notification Requirements

Lerman Senter PLLC on 1/19/2024

The FCC has significantly expanded telecommunications carriers’ data breach notification and reporting obligations. Telecommunications carriers, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, and telecommunications...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2023 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 11/17/2023

CYBERSECURITY - New York Governor Proposes Cybersecurity Regulations for NY Hospitals - On November 13, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul released proposed cybersecurity regulations applicable to all hospitals located within...more

NYAG Settles with Personal Touch for $350,000 over Phishing Incident

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/27/2023

According to a press release, Personal Touch, a home health company located on Long Island, has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James for $350,000 for a data breach that occurred in January of 2021...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2023 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/21/2023

CYBERSECURITY - Joint Advisory Warns of Snatch Ransomware - The FBI and CISA issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory “#StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware” on September 20, 2023. The Advisory outlines the indicators of...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2023

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/7/2023

CYBERSECURITY - Joint Commission Issues Alert on Patient Safety After a Cyber-Attack - On August 15, 2023, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert entitled “Preserving patient safety after a cyberattack,”...more

NIH Federal Credit Union Notifies 14,706 Members of Data Breach

Console and Associates, P.C. on 7/7/2023

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

Metaverse Primer

Shipkevich PLLC on 1/5/2023

The term “metaverse” first appeared in 1992 as an abstract concept in Neal Stephenson’s dystopian novel Snow Crash. Two decades later, the Metaverse has since evolved from a mere idea to a figment of everyday reality, as it...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2022 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 11/23/2022

CYBERSECURITY - Health Care Organizations Warned of Venus Ransomware - The Health Care Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (IC3) recently released an Analyst’s Note to health care organizations providing information...more

“Ding Dong” -- FTC-Drizly Data Breach Settlement Will follow CEO Personally for a Decade

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 10/31/2022

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced on Monday that it is settling a case against Drizly and its CEO stemming from a 2020 data breach that impacted roughly 2.5 million consumers. The proposed order not only...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2022 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/30/2022

CYBERSECURITY - Hackers Experimenting with Deploying Destructive Malware - It’s a cold, hard fact that hackers don’t really care about their victims or their victims’ data or business. They are greedy, evil human...more

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 21

Dechert LLP on 9/30/2022

US Federal Appellate Court Issues Opinion on Proof of Injury in Data Breach Cases - On September 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a class action lawsuit that had previously been dismissed...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

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