Personal Information, Data Breach, Breach of Contract

Data breach class actions – Northern District of Georgia dismisses four substantive claims, but two survive

Kilpatrick on 2/28/2025

Takeaway: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller once famously said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” These days cyberattacks seem to happen all the time. And when a...more

Litigation Preparedness Following a Data Breach: Three Tips to Consider During the Incident Response Period

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/26/2023

Data breaches come in many different forms, sizes, and levels of complexity, but they tend to share certain key facts: A third-party bad actor—whether through a phishing attack, a ransomware attack, exploitation of a zero-day...more

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

Genova Burns LLC on 9/14/2022

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a putative class action suit led by a former employee of a company that suffered a ransomware attack, leading to her sensitive information being released onto the Dark...more

Data Breach: No Injury-in-Fact, Case Dismissed

Knobbe Martens on 11/25/2020

It well known that there are, unfortunately, many data breaches that frequently put private citizens’ data privacy in jeopardy. States have passed a variety of statutes aimed at addressing this problem in an attempt to...more

Importance of CCPA Compliance Highlighted by First Round of Private Actions

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/20/2020

The first wave of California Consumer Privacy Act litigation has begun to roll in, and the complaints are already raising interesting questions about the scope of CCPA’s private right of action. The actions assert a variety...more

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Data breach class actions – Northern District of Georgia dismisses four substantive claims, but two survive

Litigation Preparedness Following a Data Breach: Three Tips to Consider During the Incident Response Period

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

Data Breach: No Injury-in-Fact, Case Dismissed

Importance of CCPA Compliance Highlighted by First Round of Private Actions

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