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Employer Liability Issues Cyber Crimes

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 4, May 2024

MIT Report Details New Cybersecurity Risks - “Cloud misconfigurations, more sophisticated ransomware, and vendor exploitation attacks are contributing to rising cyberattacks.” Why this is important: Worldwide spending...more

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

Can employers face liability when a cyber-attacker steals funds from an employee's individual 401(k) account?

Retirement plans face increased risks for cyber-attacks resulting in theft of plan assets. Few entities can keep up with the pace set by cyber-criminals for theft from accounts, and security requirements for industries...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

[Webinar] 2022 WORKing Lunch Series: Protecting Your (Human) Resources: Fighting Business Email Compromise and Ransomware -...

HR employees are, willingly or not, the guardians of the company’s most sensitive collection of data—its employee’s personal information. Cybercriminals often perceive the human resources department as the perfect gateway...more

Fisher Phillips

In the World of Ransomware Attacks, Déjà Vu Seems to be the New Normal for Employers

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Pick the date and news publication. After a few flips of the pages (or a scroll of the mouse), you’ll no doubt find an article about “ABC Company” reeling from a ransomware attack. This proliferation of cyberattacks is all...more

Burr & Forman

Labor & Employment E-Note - June 2021

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Focus - DOL Issues New COVID-19 Safety Rule for Healthcare Providers - OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard imposes new COVID-19 requirements on healthcare providers. Most of the new requirements go into effect...more

Fisher Phillips

Cybersecurity Insurance: Does Our Business Need It?

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By now, we are all too familiar with the issues and pitfalls associated with cybersecurity breaches in a multitude of industries. Consider Equifax, Home Depot, Yahoo or Target, to name a few. Those well-publicized incidents...more

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Don’t Take the Bait! “Spear Phishing” and “Whaling” Take Scams to the Next Level

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For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

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Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

Snell & Wilmer

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Employers Have an Affirmative Duty to Protect Workers’ Personal Data from Cybercriminals:...

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In a landmark decision with far-reaching implication, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have an affirmative duty to protect their employees’ personal information from criminal hacking. In particular,...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #4

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A new ransomware, dubbed “Ryuk,” has surfaced in the last few weeks and is said to be targeting large organizations in the United States. The attackers behind Ryuk have reportedly made more than $640,000 in just two weeks,...more

White and Williams LLP

Washington Suburb Targeted by Cybercrime and Ransomware Attacks – Cyber News

A recent report from The Seattle Times provides details on a series of social engineering and ransomware attacks successfully perpetrated on a Seattle suburb during the second half of 2017. The incidents of cyber scams...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

Cybercrime and Data Breach a Rising Threat to All Employers

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Over the past six months, we have observed a significant uptick in inquiries about data breach and other cyberthreats from area businesses. We are asked about pursuing claims for recovery of funds lost due to fraud by...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

March Grabness: Lessons from the (Basketball) Court: Avoiding Personal Fouls, Violations and Time Outs in the Workplace

Harassment has long been an Achilles’ heel of the workplace. Believe it or not, like the NCAA’s tournament TV ratings, the number of harassment-related lawsuits has held rather steady since the 1990s! And like most NCAA...more

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Recent Amendments to Security Breach Notification Laws Further Complicate Breach Notification for Employers

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It is not a matter of "if" but "when" an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach.  Forty-seven states require employers to notify employees when defined categories of personal information, including...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Massachusetts Appeals Court Set to Consider Scope of Employer Liability for Employee Data Breaches

Many of the highest-profile and headline-catching data breaches involve external breaches of a company’s electronic systems. But the reality that these headlines obscure is the fact that internal data breaches are generally...more

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