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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

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 21

Dechert LLP on 9/30/2022

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

Zoom Settlement Will Likely Mute Federal Class Action Lawsuit over Data Privacy

Bilzin Sumberg on 8/4/2021

After months of litigation, Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a proposed class action pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California....more

Finding a Test for Reasonable Security Practices: Embrace Complexity and Specifics

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/22/2020

Most people have a warped and deeply unrealistic understanding of data security. There is no such thing as absolute security. For a thing to have value, you must be able to access the value – in effect, to use it. In order...more

Frequency and Cost of Insider Threats Continue to Increase

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/11/2020

The Ponemon Institute recently issued its 2020 Cost of insider Threats Global Report, which finds that the frequency and cost of insider threats is continued to increase. Sponsored by ObserveIT and IBM, the 2020 report is the...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/6/2020

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the EU advocate general's decision in Schrems II, a federal court's ruling that an insurer owed coverage for a social engineering loss, the Chinese...more

Data breach class actions - Georgia Supreme Court finds allegations of imminent risk of identity

Kilpatrick on 1/13/2020

Takeaway: A key issue in data breach litigation is whether a data breach plaintiff has alleged facts sufficient to establish a cognizable injury. In Collins v. Athens Orthopedic Clinic, P.A., S19G0007, 2019 WL 7046786 (Ga....more

Data Breach Class Actions - Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Duty to Safeguard Personal Information

Kilpatrick on 7/1/2019

Takeaway: Plaintiffs in data breach class actions usually assert common law tort claims, such as claims for negligence, gross negligence, and negligence per se. Negligence claims, however, require the breach of a recognized...more

Lawsuit Alert: New State Law Affirmative Duty to Safeguard Personal Data

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/3/2019

Now a business that was hacked may be successfully sued under state common law by data subjects whose information was compromised in the crime. For the first time, a state supreme court has held that a company that was...more

Pennsylvania High Court’s Dittman Ruling Makes It Harder To Dismiss Data Breach Actions

Fenwick & West LLP on 12/20/2018

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have “a legal duty to safeguard” the personal data of their employees which is stored on internet-accessible computer systems and that the economic loss doctrine...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Employers Have a Duty to Exercise Reasonable Care to Safeguard Sensitive Personal Information...

K&L Gates LLP on 12/17/2018

To date, Pennsylvania has not adopted a comprehensive law specifying how sensitive personal information about individuals must be secured or the protections that holders of this information must use to minimize risk of...more

Employers May Be Liable for the Release of Employees' Personally Identifying Information in Data Breaches

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 12/7/2018

It seems that reports of hackers breaching a business’s security measures to obtain customer information appear on an almost weekly basis. Unfortunately, businesses need to worry not only about the unauthorized access of...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Recognizes Employers’ Duty to Safeguard Employees’ Personal Data

Saul Ewing LLP on 12/5/2018

In a unanimous ruling that is sure to become a landmark in state litigation over data breaches, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on November 21 held that “an employer has a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard...more

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

Snell & Wilmer on 12/3/2018

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

Today's Popular Updates › Data Security › Negligence

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

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 21

Zoom Settlement Will Likely Mute Federal Class Action Lawsuit over Data Privacy

Finding a Test for Reasonable Security Practices: Embrace Complexity and Specifics

Frequency and Cost of Insider Threats Continue to Increase

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2020

Data breach class actions - Georgia Supreme Court finds allegations of imminent risk of identity

Data Breach Class Actions - Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Duty to Safeguard Personal Information

Lawsuit Alert: New State Law Affirmative Duty to Safeguard Personal Data

Pennsylvania High Court’s Dittman Ruling Makes It Harder To Dismiss Data Breach Actions

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Employers Have a Duty to Exercise Reasonable Care to Safeguard Sensitive Personal Information...

Employers May Be Liable for the Release of Employees' Personally Identifying Information in Data Breaches

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Recognizes Employers’ Duty to Safeguard Employees’ Personal Data

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

PA Supreme Court: Businesses Have Duty to Safeguard Sensitive Employee Information

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

Purchasing Cyber Insurance? Important Considerations from the Recent Nossaman/ UCI Cyber Symposium

Draft Kings Class Action Argues Data Leak Revealed “Insider Trading” – But Can Case Survive Arbitration Clause?

Class In Session: Minnesota Federal Court Certifies Class In Target Corporation Data Breach Suit

Legal Insights on the Ashley Madison Hack: Part I

Employees Who Suffer Only Economic Losses From a Data Breach Cannot Sustain a Negligence Claim Against Their Employer

Today's Popular Updates › Data Security › Negligence

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