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Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Learning From Data Breach Cases To Reduce Legal Risk

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The average cost of a data breach is on the rise. According to the 2022 ForgeRock Consumer Identity Breach Report, the average cost in 2021 of recovering from a data breach in the U.S. is $9.5 million — an increase of 16%...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Data Privacy Exposure Hits the Public Sector: Lessons from the OPM Data Breach Class Action, Whistleblower Actions, and the GAO...

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Data privacy litigation and enforcement actions continue to roil the private sector, most recently with the FTC’s announcement of a $425 million settlement with Equifax in the wake of the Equifax data breach. Less discussed...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

D.C. Circuit Breathes New Life into OPM Data Breach Litigation

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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) made headlines when several hacks of confidential data came to light in 2015, intrusions that compromised the personal data of over 20 million individuals. On July 21, 2019, in...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Weekly Update Newsletter - May 2019

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - The Department of Defense issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to implement section 2804 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Companies Outside Retail And Financial Industries May Have Additional Arguments To Challenge Standing In Data Breach Cases

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The data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management was one of the most serious and possibly one of the top ten largest data breaches of the 21st century, compromising background investigation records for some 22...more

Carlton Fields

Fall Data Breach Roundup And 2018 Preview: Supreme Court, OPM, Equifax And More!

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As 2017 draws to a close, data breach class actions abound, while questions regarding what suffices for Article III standing in these cases remain—with litigants hoping the Supreme Court will soon weigh in....more

King & Spalding

U.S. House Of Representatives Announces OPM Data Breach Findings

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On Wednesday, September 7, Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report detailing the events leading up to the sweeping hack of the federal Office of...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

2016 Data Breach Litigation Report

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Data security breaches – and data security breach litigation – dominated the headlines in 2015 and continue to do so in 2016. Continuous widely publicized breaches have led to 30,000 articles a month being published that...more

Cozen O'Connor

Feds Push for Better Cybersecurity

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President Obama has long discussed the importance of improving governmental cybersecurity, but the issue gained significant traction last year after two massive breaches at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In...more

Blank Rome LLP

Mainbrace: October 2015, No. 4

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As with the world economy, the shipping markets are currently experiencing a major bout of volatility. The wide range of matters we are handling in our maritime law practice certainly reflects the current swings the shipping...more

King & Spalding

Project CAMERASHY Details Cyberespionage By China’s Military

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In a story reminiscent of a Tom Clancy plot, the Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday on “meticulously documented” cyberespionage conducted by China’s People’s Liberation Army (“PLA”) Unit 78020 to further strategic...more

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OPM Faces Another Class Action For The Theft Of Data Affecting 21.5 Million Current, Former And Prospective Government Employees

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On August 14, 2015, a class action was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of about 21.5 million federal employees, contractors, and job applicants whose personal information was...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: NACD Suggests Questions For Boards To Ask Cybersecurity Officers

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As reported in the WSJ, the National Association of Corporate Directors advises that boards ask their companies’ chief information security officers some pointed questions about cybersecurity risks. Often, boards just ask...more

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Also In the News - Data, Privacy, & Security Practice Report - July 2015 #2

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FCC Working Group Issues Report On Cybersecurity Best Practices – The June 2015 issue of the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal features an article by King & Spalding partner Steven Snyder on a Federal...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Monday – July 2015

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Welcome to the dog days of summer 2015. Three privacy & security bits and bytes to start your week (if you are reading this on vacation … good for you!) 1. ICYMI: Massive Data Breach at OPM Claims Victim — The Director...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

OPM data breach update: OPM shuts down background check system

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The OPM announced this week that it is temporarily shutting down its background security clearance system, e-QIP, as vulnerabilities were found during a review of systems. Presently, according to OPM, the vulnerabilities did...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Password Best Practices – I know, AGAIN!

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With the uptick in high profile security breaches like the Office of Personnel Management, Target, JPMorgan and others, it is easy to become desensitized to the constant risk our cyber lives pose both personally and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

2015 Data Breach Legislation Six Month Review: Many Proposals, Few Changes

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The heat of summer may be upon us, but in Congress and in many state legislatures the attitude toward passing major data breach legislation has considerably cooled. We predicted some months ago that 2015 might be the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Liability for Data Breach Involving Employee Information: Even the Federal Government and Third Party Vendors Are Not Immune

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In what is quickly becoming the newest trending topic in class action litigation, another class action has been filed alleging the disclosure of employee personally identifiable information due to a cyber attack. This...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Needed Now: Experienced and Talented Cybersecurity Professionals to Protect Government Data Systems

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The announcement on June 4th of a massive cybersecurity attack that compromised data stored on Office of Personnel Management (OPM) systems for 4.2 million current and former federal employees is the most recent head-smacking...more

Williams Mullen

Cybersecurity Standards Apply to Thee, Not Me

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“If there is anyone to blame, it is the perpetrators,” said Katherine Archuleta, Director of the federal Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), to a Senate panel investigating the causes of the recent OPM cyberattack. ...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Largest Breach in U.S. Government History Is a Wake-Up Call on Need for Encryption

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Employees are reasonable in assuming that their employer is protecting their personal information from compromise. The obvious way to do that is to maintain appropriate encryption technology. Simply put: encryption,...more

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U.S. Government Acknowledges Two Large Data Breaches Affecting Millions Of Federal Employees

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On June 4, 2015, the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) announced it had detected a massive data breach of its IT networks that exposed data in the personnel files of approximately four million current and former federal...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Tuesday – June 2015 – OPM Hack

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The news continues to pour in about the two-part massive hack into the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the compromise of personal information of millions of present and former federal employees. ...more

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Data Breach Affects Millions of Current and Former Government Workers

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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that hackers have stolen the personal information of approximately 4 million current and former federal employees, including names, birthdates and social security...more

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