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Pennsylvania Makes Significant Changes to Its Data Breach Notification Law

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On June 28, 2024, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an amendment to Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act into law. The amended law, which includes significant changes to the Keystone State’s...more

Knobbe Martens

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

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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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Equifax Reaches Historic $575 Million Settlement Agreement Arising from 2017 Data Breach

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Equifax has agreed to pay $575 million to settle consumer as well as state and federal regulatory claims for its 2017 data breach. This is the largest data breach settlement to date. ...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2019 #4

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Security researchers have warned municipalities repeatedly about how they are being targeted with ransomware, that they are at high risk, and the need to make data security a high priority. Please see full Publication blow...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Data Breaches Prove Costly for Major Businesses

In an age where data is widely available and almost everything is stored online, data breaches are becoming more common, and the outcomes of cases involving data breaches are unpredictable. Data involved in a breach can range...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Gone Phishing: Employer Faces Liability for Mistakenly Disclosing W-2 Forms to Scammer

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Phishing. Spoofing. - These words may sound silly, but for employers, they are anything but. Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive electronic information—such as usernames, passwords, or financial...more

Fisher Phillips

Tougher Privacy and Data Security Protections Coming to North Carolina

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A bi-partisan privacy and data security bill, which will significantly impact companies with North Carolina employees, is in the works. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Appropriations Chairman of...more

Vedder Price

Data Breach Notification Revisions in North Carolina Would Bring Radical Change

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A North Carolina bill designed to strengthen the state’s data breach notification statute could radically change incident response. Through the Act to Strengthen Identity Theft Protections, North Carolina could quickly become...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Equifax Breach: What Can the Hackers Do with Your Information and How Can You Protect Yourself?

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The Equifax breach is not the biggest in terms of the number of people affected (the 2016 Yahoo breach compromised data associated with over 500 million user accounts compared to the 143 million people affected by the Equifax...more

Jones Day

Protecting Your Identity After a Data Breach

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In light of recent high-profile breaches of highly sensitive data, this is a good time to remind individuals of how to protect their identity and credit information....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Update on Data Breach and Data Privacy Class Actions Post-Spokeo

In May, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Spokeo v. Robins, providing guidance on the “injury-in-fact” aspect of the constitutional standing requirement for putative class action plaintiffs. 136 S. Ct. 1540...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

IRS provides tax relief for pre-breach identity protection services

The IRS released a bulletin on December 30, 2015, (Announcement 2016-02) announcing that it would extend the tax exemption issued in August to organizations who provide credit monitoring to its employees following a data...more

Baker Donelson

The New Paradigm in Vendor Management Under the CFPB

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This past July marked the fifth anniversary of the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a period marked by sweeping changes to the regulatory and administrative environment in which financial...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Neiman Marcus Seeks En Banc Review of Seventh Circuit’s Watershed Data Breach Class-Action Decision

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Does a data breach of a retailer’s payment-card information automatically confer Article III standing on affected customers? Is the mere possibility that some criminal element may use pilfered information to commit future...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Does Free Credit Monitoring Do More "Harm" Than Good?

The Seventh Circuit reinstates the Neiman Marcus data breach class action lawsuit after finding that increased risk of future fraudulent charges and greater susceptibility to identify theft are sufficient for standing. ...more

McDermott Will & Emery

With No Federal Law in Sight, States Continue to Refine Their Own Data Privacy Laws

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With no Congressional consensus to adopt a federal data privacy and breach notification statute, states are updating and refining their already-existing laws to enact more stringent requirements for companies. Two states...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

NLRB to define an employer’s duty to a labor union following a data breach

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In October 2014, the United States Postal Service (USPS) disclosed a cybersecurity data breach affecting approximately 800,000 current and former employees. The USPS later determined that, for some, the breach may have...more

Nossaman LLP

Did You Know…Cybersecurity Made More Complicated by the NLRB

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The National Labor Relations Board has recently inserted itself into the world of cybersecurity after the United States Postal Service suffered a security breach involving the personal data of several hundred thousand of its...more

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