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Foley & Lardner LLP

National Public Data Hack Exposes Millions: Essential Steps to Safeguard Your Identity and Combat Fraud

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The recent massive data breach at National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, has potentially compromised the personal information of millions, if not billions, of individuals, including their Social Security...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Digital Dupe: How to Protect Against Identity Theft After Death

In the digital age, identity theft has taken on new and sinister forms, extending beyond the living to the deceased. When a loved one passes away, their identity doesn’t simply vanish; it lingers in both the digital realm and...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Business Account Takeover Fraud: Pursuing the Platform Is Rarely the Answer

Business account takeover (“ATO”) fraud occurs where a threat actor gains access to a business account on a payments platform (e.g., a payroll or accounts payable tool) or fraudulently creates such an account and engages in...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

NIH Federal Credit Union Notifies 14,706 Members of Data Breach

On July 5, 2023, the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine following the company’s discovery that an unauthorized party was able to get into an...more

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Combatting Financial Crime in the Metaverse

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...The internet-enabled virtual world of the metaverse is capturing the imagination of so many people that by the end of the decade five billion could be using it, according to a forecast by Citi. The metaverse is also...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 21

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US Federal Appellate Court Issues Opinion on Proof of Injury in Data Breach Cases - On September 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a class action lawsuit that had previously been dismissed...more

Wiley Rein LLP

4 Important Class Cert. Issues From 2 Data Breach Cases

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Data breach lawsuits are challenging cases for plaintiffs. Assuming they are able to survive a motion to dismiss on grounds of Article III standing in the first instance, plaintiffs next bear the high burden of achieving...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2020

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CYBERSECURITY - OFAC Issues Advisory on Sanctions for Facilitating Ransomware Payments - On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory “to...more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Cybersecurity: How to Protect Yourself and Your Company

Just recently, Equifax had the largest-ever settlement for a data breach. They are to pay at least $575 million, and potentially as much as $700 million, to settle allegations over its massive 2017 data breach. What we tell...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Lessons from the Wells Fargo Scandal

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Financial institutions must meet standards for safeguarding customer data given the particularly sensitive information they hold, and regulators have been stepping up their efforts to provide guidance on just how they must do...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Sixth Circuit: Substantial Risk of Harm and Mitigation Costs Sufficient to Confer Standing in Data Breach Case

On October 12, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied a petition for an en banc rehearing of its September 12 decision in Galaria, et al. v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nos. 15-3386/3387). In...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cyber prosecutions update

The feds have been busy on the cyber prosecutions front. First, on March 18, 2016, the FBI announced that a multi-agency collaborative effort blew up an identity theft ring whose leader was an inmate in a Georgia prison. The...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Sony will pay up to $4.5M to settle data breach case with employees and up to $3.49 in attorneys’ fees for plaintiffs’ attorneys

Sony Pictures (Sony) agreed on Monday (October 19, 2015) to pay at least $2M and up to $4.5M to employees whose personal information was breached and posted online during the massive hack that hit Sony in 2014....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #4—What do I do when I get a letter informing me of a data breach?

We’ve all gotten them–the dreaded letter that informs us that our data has been compromised, including our Social Security number. Some have received so many of these “notifications” that they are de-sensitized, throw their...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

IRS admits 334,000 victims of fraudulent tax refunds due to security flaws on website

Not only did the IRS lose a flash drive with 12,000 school worker’s Social Security numbers on it in Texas, it admitted on August 17th that its initial estimate that 110,000 taxpayers’ personal information was used to file...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Taxpayer Identity Theft

Recently, there has been a spike in felons filing fraudulent income tax returns seeking refunds. The identity thief merely acquires a taxpayer’s name, address and Social Security Number, and files a return with a different...more

Cozen O'Connor

Pennsylvania Court Dismisses Data Breach Claims

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In 2014, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s computer system was hacked, resulting in the disclosure of sensitive personal information of current and former employees, including names, addresses, birthdates, social...more

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