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Court Finds hiQ Breached LinkedIn’s Terms Prohibiting Scraping, but in Mixed Ruling, Declines to Grant Summary Judgment to Either...

On November 4, 2022, a California district court took up the parties cross-motions for summary judgment in the long-running scraping litigation involving social media site LinkedIn Corp.’s (“LinkedIn”) challenge to data...more

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What Happened on LinkedIn?

On June 22, 2021, a hacker announced the sale of over 700,000 pieces of personal information from LinkedIn. In a report detailed by ComputerWeekly.com, almost all of LinkedIn’s users were impacted by what the organization is...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #290 – 700 Million LinkedIn Users’ Data for Sale on Hacker Forum

Although a security researcher has confirmed that LinkedIn users’ data, including full names, gender, email addresses, telephone numbers, and industry information is for sale on RaidForums by a hacker self-dubbed “GOD User...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #200 - Iranian Backed Hacking Group Using LinkedIn To Deliver Malicious Documents

Fireeye published research last week that it has identified a phishing campaign by APT34, which is known to be a hacking group out of Iran, that all LinkedIn users should be aware of when considering adding a LinkedIn...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2018 #2

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Cisco is warning customers using its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software about a virtual private network (VPN) bug that could "allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to...more

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Vevo Hacked through LinkedIn Message

Vevo announced this week that it experienced an intrusion into its servers by the hacking collective OurMine, self-described as a white hat organization that informs individuals and organizations of potential security...more

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Privacy and Data Security: 2017 Year in Preview

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Few issues keep executives awake at night more than Privacy and Data Security. New regulations and threats alike are plentiful, varied, and evolving. The rate of change for cybersecurity and information governance continues...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - November 2016"

In this month's Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we review an 11th Circuit case involving the longstanding battle between the FTC and medical company LabMD, recent NIST guidelines for securing devices connected to the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #59 – Check your Privacy Settings on Your LinkedIn Account

I am watching Game 7 of the World Series, and it is the bottom of the 8th and the score is 6-6. It is very difficult to concentrate on this blog post. So I am taking the easy way out and reminding you to check the...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

How Older Cybersecurity Lapses Can Give Birth to Future Data Breaches

Since my last post on the subject (“LinkedIn Grapples with the Ripples of a 2012 Data Breach”), there have been several developments related to LinkedIn’s 2012 data breach. First, in May, LinkedIn announced it has finished...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

LinkedIn Grapples with the Ripples of a 2012 Data Breach

Last week on the official LinkedIn blog, the company’s chief information security officer, Cory Scott, reported the company had become aware of an additional set of data that has just been released consisting of e-mail and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

LinkedIn admits that 2012 data breach in fact affected 117 million users’ data

A LinkedIn data breach in 2012 supposedly exposed 6.5 million LinkedIn users’ hashed passwords. LinkedIn announced yesterday (May 18, 2016) that in fact, it impacted more than 177 million user accounts, and that the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Three Trending Topics in IoT: Privacy, Security, and Fog Computing

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Cisco has estimated that there will be 50 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet by the year 2020. IoT has been a buzzword over the past couple of years. However, the buzz surrounding IoT in the...more

King & Spalding

Coordinated Hackers Infiltrate 200 Targeted Employees’ LinkedIn Networks

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Cybersecurity researchers at the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (“Dell CTU”) uncovered a network of approximately 25 fake LinkedIn profiles that Dell CTU believes were used by an Iran-linked hacker group to establish at...more

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That is SO last week - October 2015 #3

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Last week was a tough one for Uber, an exemplar of the “sharing economy.” Multiple lawsuits against the company are focused on the status of drivers as employees or independent contractors, and now the Oregon Bureau of Labor...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - March 2015 #2

New DAA App Brings Choice to Mobile - Bringing consumer choice to mobile applications, the Digital Advertising Alliance released “AppChoices,” a free app that will allow consumers to opt out of tracking on mobile...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - March 28, 2013

In This Issue: Marc Roth and Lindsay Conner to Serve as Faculty for PLI Information Technology Law Institute 2013; Data Security, Emerging Tech to Be Focus for FTC; Mobile Payment Services Subject of New FTC Report;...more

Perkins Coie

LinkedIn Data Breach Lawsuit Dismissed For Lack Of Standing

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A federal judge in the Northern District of California recently added to the growing list of cases rejecting attempts to recover damages resulting from data breaches. In In re LinkedIn User Privacy Litigation, Case no....more

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