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Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - January 2023 - 4

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PayPal Discloses December 2022 Security Incident Involving Credential Stuffing Attacks - PayPal has begun sending out notification letters to individuals impacted by a security incident that occurred in early December...more

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

Spy Games: How Insider/Outsider Threats Have Become the Newest Cybersecurity Legal Risk

Cybersecurity does not just pose technical challenges; companies must always keep their eye on the human component of cyber risk.  For example, even the most damaging and sophisticated hacks – such as the recent Twitter hacks...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

McAfee® Report Outlines Recent Threats from Q3 2018

For data security buffs like me, the recent McAfee® Labs Threats Report, December 2018 is, or should be, a top pick on the list. Well maybe not for the holiday reading list, and we need to be careful not to bring up the...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Home Remedies For Politically Charged IP Theft

In January of this year, Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Sinovel Wind Group Co. Ltd. was convicted of stealing trade secrets from U.S. company AMSC Inc. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Russian Hackers: Desperate for U.S. Information

The latest report regarding Russia stealing U.S. cyber secrets is yet again centered around the National Security Agency (NSA), using Contractors to gain access, in some cases, to classified data....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Of Greek Gods and Data Breaches

The sorry story of Chris Correa, the St. Louis Cardinal executive convicted of hacking into the Houston Astros computer system expanded last month when Federal Judge Lynn Hughes unsealed details about the extent of the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Major League Baseball fines Cardinals and Plucks Draft Picks for Hacking the Astros

It doesn’t always pay to be a hacker. Major League Baseball (MLB) this week made a strong statement about its tolerance for teams hacking other teams. We previously reported on the incident when a Cardinals employee hacked...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Espionage and Export Controls: The iPhone Hack Highlights The New World of Warfare

Last week, researchers at Citizen Lab uncovered sophisticated new spyware that allowed hackers to take complete control of anyone’s iPhone, turning the phone into a pocket-spy to intercept communications, track movements and...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Business Litigation Alert: "Business Lessons from the Database Hack of the Houston Astros"

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Christopher Correa, a former scout for the St. Louis Cardinals, was recently sentenced to almost four years in prison for hacking the Houston Astros player-personnel database. While it seems far-fetched that hacking would...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ex-Cardinals scouting director sentenced to serve time in jail for Astros database hacking

Back in January, we wrote about the ex-Cardinals Scouting Director pleading guilty to hacking the Houston Astros database. Now, this week, Christopher Correa, former scouting director and director of baseball development, was...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Major League Baseball investigating Cardinals-Astros hacking

Promptly following the sentencing of Christopher Correa on July 18, 2016, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Major League Baseball (MLB) is looking further into the hacking incident involving...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Former Cardinals Scouting Director Pleads Guilty to Hacking Astros’ Computer Systems

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Economic espionage and computer hacking can touch all industries and business types. Computer hacking is a federal crime, and federal prosecutors are aggressively targeting cases involving the unauthorized access of a...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

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

US China Trade War

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The October blog post will be broken up into two parts. This October 15th post will comment on the TPP Agreement signed today and well as President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to the US and my impressions from Beijing, China...more

King & Spalding

U.S., China Announce Cybersecurity Agreement During Xi Jiping’s Visit

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Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to the United States last week, and his itinerary included meetings with U.S. technology company leaders as well as President Barack Obama. Not surprisingly, his hosts...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Keep Your Frenemies Close: Proposed China Sanctions and the Price of Escalation

On August 30, 2015, the Washington Post broke a story that the Obama administration is developing a package of economic sanctions that will target Chinese companies and individuals who have benefitted from cybertheft. The new...more

BakerHostetler

DOD Adopts Interim Cyber Rules As Claims of Chinese Cyber Attacks Continue

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U.S. officials have blamed Chinese government-backed attackers for many of the recent cyber attacks on U.S. government and business computer networks: “Researchers and government officials have determined that the Chinese...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Hacking Your Rivals – Corporate Espionage in Major League Baseball

As we approach the dog days of summer, baseball season is again in full bloom. We previously discussed old-fashioned sign stealing in the context of teams trying to gain a competitive advantage during an actual game. But it...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

United States Charges China with Cyber-Espionage in Unprecedented Indictment

This morning, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted five Chinese military officials on charges of computer hacking, economic espionage, and...more

Blank Rome LLP

United States v. China: The Battle over Cyber-Espionage Results in Criminal Charges

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For those of us who have been active in cybersecurity, it is a well known fact that the Chinese government, acting through its military, has been the most prolific global perpetrators of cyber-espionage. Over the past several...more

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