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NY Settles With Insurer on Data Breach Rooted in Security Deficiencies

Cozen O'Connor on 3/28/2025

New York AG Letitia James settled with Root Insurance Company to resolve allegations that the company’s data security deficiencies led to a 2021 data breach involving 72,000 people, in violation of state consumer protection...more

Marriott Settles for $52M & Enhances Data Protections After Multi-State Investigations

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 2/10/2025

Marriott has agreed to pay $52 million dollars and implement new consumer data protections to settle investigations by attorneys general from 49 states and the Federal Trade Commission, following data breaches that occurred...more

Movie Theater Data Breach Leads to Settlement and Class Action Lawsuits

Troutman Pepper Locke on 12/9/2024

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

Attorneys General Bring Multistate Data Breach Settlement Against DNA Testing Lab

WilmerHale on 2/23/2023

On February 17, 2023, the state attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio reached a settlement with Ohio-based DNA Diagnostics Center (“DDC”) for a 2021 data breach that affected 2.1 million individuals nationwide and...more

Georgia Home Health and Hospice Provider to Pay $425,000 to Resolve Allegations of Inadequate Computer Security in Connection with...

King & Spalding on 11/22/2022

Aveanna Healthcare, LLC, a Georgia-based home health and hospice care company, entered a consent judgment with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (the AG's Office) on November 3, 2022, agreeing to pay $425,000 to...more

Online Retailer Settles with State Attorneys General Over Security Incident

Troutman Pepper Locke on 1/6/2021

Seven state attorneys general, led by New York Attorney General Letisha James, reached a settlement with Residual Pumpkin Entity LLC (formerly known as CafePress LLC) (“CafePress”), related to a 2019 data security incident,...more

Travel Giant Sabre Reaches Deal with State Attorneys General Over Data Breach

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/5/2021

The travel giant Sabre Corp. has reached an agreement with multiple State Attorneys General to pay $2.4 million and make certain changes in its cybersecurity policies to settle a multi-state investigation into a 2017 data...more

New Enforcement Threat: 'Coordinated' AGs Pursuing Settlements Following Big Breaches

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/18/2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 12 (December 10, 2020) - In late September, Anthem Inc. entered into a $39.5 million settlement for a 2014 data breach that affected nearly 79 million individuals. About a week later,...more

Data Breaches Can Cost $$ – Plus Ongoing Obligations (ask Home Depot): Lessons and Takeaways

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 12/3/2020

The Home Depot, Inc. (“Home Depot”) recently entered into a multi-state Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with Attorneys General of 46 states and the District of Columbia (the “Settlement”) stemming from a massive 2014 data...more

NYAG Reaches Settlement with Dunkin’ Over Cyberattacks

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/6/2020

On September 15, 2020, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) reached a Consent and Stipulation Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Dunkin’ Brand’s Inc. a year after filing a lawsuit over the company’s response to cyberattacks in...more

Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. Agrees to Pay $650,000 to Settle 2019 Data Breach Lawsuit Brought by the New York Attorney General’s Office

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 9/22/2020

On September 15, 2020, the New York Attorney General’s Office (NYAG) announced a settlement with Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. (Dunkin) in connection with a September 2019 lawsuit brought by the NYAG against Dunkin for alleged...more

HIPAA Breach Settles for $1M in First Settlement Involving State Attorneys General

Poyner Spruill LLP on 6/6/2019

Last week, Indiana based Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (MIE) agreed to pay $100,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). MIE provides electronic health record and related...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/2/2019

In this month's edition, we examine cybersecurity-related state Supreme Court rulings in Pennsylvania, Vermont and Illinois; the Department of Health and Human Services' cybersecurity guidelines for the health care industry;...more

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