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A Retailer’s Guide to Protecting Customer Data

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Retail establishments collect and maintain a wealth of confidential data, not the least of which is credit and debit card information of customers. This type of data makes retail establishments particularly likely to be...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020

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Researchers at Sentinel One and Dragos have detected malicious code, called EKANS or Snake, that has been designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), including those of oil refineries, manufacturing...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Black Friday Blues

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With the holiday season fast-approaching, thrifty shoppers across the country will soon be looking to spend (and save) their hard-earned money during what is arguably the busiest shopping weekend of the year, spanning Black...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2019 #2

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Marriott International Inc. (Marriott) has released new numbers relating to its Starwood Hotel’s reservation database by stating that more than 5 million passport numbers were stolen in the database. ...more

Perkins Coie

12 Questions Retailers Should Ask to Avoid Ghosts of Privacy Breaches Past

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As retailers head into the holiday shopping season, the ghosts of privacy breaches past may come to mind just as easily as the 12 days of Christmas carol! From Target to Michael’s to Neiman Marcus, retailers remember these...more

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“We’ve Updated Our Privacy Policy”: How the EU’s New Data Protection Law is Changing Data Policy Considerations for American...

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If you have ever made an online purchase, chances are that you have received at least one email in the last month notifying you that a company’s privacy policy has changed. These emails are part of efforts to comply with the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

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Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Busy Data Breach Week

Unfortunately, it was another busy data breach week. Here’s a summary of the major ones. Delta Airlines admitted in a statement that the payment card data of several hundred thousand customers may have been compromised by...more

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Companies Outside Retail And Financial Industries May Have Additional Arguments To Challenge Standing In Data Breach Cases

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The data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management was one of the most serious and possibly one of the top ten largest data breaches of the 21st century, compromising background investigation records for some 22...more

Carlton Fields

Fall Data Breach Roundup And 2018 Preview: Supreme Court, OPM, Equifax And More!

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As 2017 draws to a close, data breach class actions abound, while questions regarding what suffices for Article III standing in these cases remain—with litigants hoping the Supreme Court will soon weigh in....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

New FTC Data Breach Response Guidelines

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Cybersecurity should always be at the top of any retailer’s priority list—and even more so as the holiday shopping season gets underway. To that end, the Federal Trade Commission’s newly-released Data Breach Response...more

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FTC Publishes Data Breach Response Guidelines

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Whether resulting from a planned cyberattack or mere carelessness, data breaches are on the rise. In 2015, 781 data breaches were reported across the United States, with the average breach costing $3.8 million. In 2016, the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: August 2016

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When food and beverage companies think of their largest risks, data breaches have not historically come to mind, but this is changing because of reports in the past few months of major breaches by companies such as Noodles &...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

2016 Data Breach Litigation Report

Data security breaches – and data security breach litigation – dominated the headlines in 2015 and continue to do so in 2016. Continuous widely publicized breaches have led to 30,000 articles a month being published that...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Cyber Security IMPOSSIBLE: California AG Decides a Ceiling is a Floor

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We all know why selecting appropriate data security standards is difficult. No two business are the same. Different businesses have different assets to protect and different bank accounts to tap. Different sized businesses...more

Perkins Coie

Could a Vendor’s Lax Info Security Ruin Your Holiday Sales? Seven Preventative Steps for Retailers

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Many of the largest retailer data security breaches have been caused or enabled by the acts or omissions of retailers’ vendors, such as the widely publicized incident at Target Corporation. Several such breaches occurred...more

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Retail Industry EMV Compliance Deadline Arrives Today - Credit Card Fraud Liability Shifts

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Starting today, October 1, 2015, a substantial portion of the liability associated with in-store fraudulent credit card purchases shifts from credit card issuers, such as banks or credit unions, to retail merchants. Credit...more

King & Spalding

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

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On September 15, 2015, a federal district court in Minnesota granted a motion for class certification of hundreds of credit unions and banks in an action against Target Corporation for damages stemming from the breach of...more

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Sally Beauty Reports 2nd Data Breach

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Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (Sally) confirmed that it has suffered a second data breach in the last year. On March 14, 2014, KrebsOnSecurity reported that credit cards stolen from Sally had gone up for sale on an Internet...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

DOJ and FTC’s Cybersecurity Policy Statement Should Ease Antitrust Nerves

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Several recent and well-publicized cyberattacks have increased the visibility of their threat to businesses’ private financial information and customers’ personal information. The increased attention has also led companies...more

JAMS

Insurance Coverage for Data Breach Claims

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Recent examples of data breaches resulting in invasion of privacy lawsuits abound. Target and other retailers, financial services companies and other businesses have had their internal data systems breached and consumers’...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Renewed Congressional Interest in Federal Data Security and Breach Notification Legislation

In light of recent, well-publicized, data security breaches at major retailers and social media company Snapchat, legislators are renewing the call for new federal laws that would strengthen data security and notification...more

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