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Don’t Let Cyber Scams Ruin the Holidays: Keep the Holiday Season Festive for Your Organization

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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year”—or is it? Unfortunately, it can be the most wonderful time for criminals, who try to prey on financial generosity through scams and frauds. Extra vigilance is needed during the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

2nd Settlement Triggered by 2017 Ransomware Attack Costs WA Practice $100K; ‘Not a Breach’

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Let’s review for a moment. It’s not a HIPAA violation to be a victim of ransomware. It’s not a HIPAA violation to pay a ransom. It’s up to the covered entity (CE) to determine if a security or privacy incident is a...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Can Privacy Be Bought? How Scrutiny of Meta’s Subscription Model Has Wider Implications –PART II

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In Part I, we discussed the European Commission’s (“Commission”) disapproval of Meta’s “pay or consent” subscription model. In Part II, we delve into the European Commission’s findings, prior findings by the European Data...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

That’s a Wrap…or Not? Regulatory Data Incident Investigation Resolutions and the Path Forward

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As we discussed in part three of this series, “Navigating the Complexities of Regulatory Data Incident Investigations,” when an organization is the subject of regulatory data incident investigations, it must navigate a...more

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Both Sides of the Coin: Employment Separation from Two Perspectives

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Employee separation commonly involves investigations, litigation, and eDiscovery. Many employees continue to access information from their employers after separation and almost ¾ of employers report that they’ve been...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

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Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

HaystackID

[Webcast Transcript] Don’t Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater: Back to the Basics in AI for eDiscovery

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Editor’s Note: In this insightful transcript from an educational webcast hosted by HaystackID on June 28, 2023, our expert panel discussed the impact of generative AI that is currently dominating the dialogue within the legal...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Proper Hygiene Matters: Three Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection Challenges and Solutions

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Editor’s Note: HaystackID hosted an educational webcast on March 15, 2023, to discuss the growing importance of cyber and data hygiene in the context of privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection. The webcast focused on how...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Peeling Away the Privilege: Another Court Orders Production of Data Breach Investigation Report

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A federal court recently added additional wrinkles to one of the most important aspects of responding to a data breach: a forensic investigative report. The court ordered a law firm to turn over a report produced by a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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

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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

Saul Ewing LLP

Federal Court Erodes Work Product Protections for Data Breach Investigations

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In a recent decision, a Virginia federal magistrate judge held that the attorney work product doctrine did not protect from discovery a forensic investigation report created for Capital One in the wake of a 2019 data breach....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2019 Insights: European Data Protection and Cybersecurity in 2019

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Data protection laws in Europe evolved substantially in 2018, with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS Directive) becoming...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Company’s Vendor Suffers Breach, No Business Associate Agreement, $500K OCR Settlement

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A Florida staffing agency which provides physicians to hospitals and nursing homes, has agreed to a $500,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. The settlement comes...more

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Fool Me Twice…SEC’s latest Cyber-Fraud ROI Indicates Future Enforcement Against Hacker Victims

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In the aftermath of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) latest Report of Investigation (“Report”) regarding cyberattacks via “spoofed or manipulated electronic communications,” companies should prepare to adjust...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Legal Insights on the Ashley Madison Hack: Part II

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As more names emerge from the dark web data dump of Ashley Madison customers, lawyers around the globe have found a very willing group of would-be plaintiffs. Interestingly, all of these plaintiffs are named “Doe,” which must...more

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