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Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed. State Action: North Dakota Passes Law...more
Cleveland Municipal Court has been shut down the past two weeks as it grapples with a cyber incident. The nature and scope of this incident is not yet publicly known, but it is reasonable to suggest that the Court may have...more
On April 25, 2024, the attorneys general of 22 states issued a letter encouraging UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, to take additional steps to respond to a massively disruptive cyberattack. The broad,...more
Iowa becomes the fourth U.S. state to provide an affirmative defense for companies that adopt a cybersecurity framework - Iowa is the fourth state—following Ohio, Connecticut, and Utah—to provide a statutory incentive for...more
Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more
Cyberattacks continue to plague businesses, making the fallout of data breach notification and response as critical as ever. This year, like 2021, has been relatively quiet as it relates to state updates to breach...more
The onslaught of ransomware attacks by cybercriminals increases unabated every year, affecting everyone from mom and pop shops on Main Street to corporate lions of Wall Street. Hackers infiltrate an organization's computer...more
Cyberattacks on organizations worldwide surged 40% in 2021. September 2021 broke records for the number of weekly cyberattacks, topping all other months since January 2020. Currently, one out of every 61 organizations...more
Over the last several months, a minority of states amended their data breach notification statutes or enacted sector-specific breach notification requirements. ...more
This week the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning of an increase in ransomware risks over the Labor Day holiday weekend – when offices are normally...more
Connecticut has become the third state to enact a cybersecurity safe harbor statute. On June 16 and July 6, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed two new cybersecurity laws that continue the national trend of...more
Ransomware has become the fastest growing type of cybercrime facing businesses today. In 2021, loss values were estimated to have reached at least 57 times those in 2015, exceeding $20 billion. Data and privacy issues are so...more
On March 3, 2021, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a settlement with Residential Mortgage Services, Inc. (RMS) for $1.5 million in connection with its violation of the NYDFS Cybersecurity...more
On February 4, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released Insurance Circular Letter No. 2 (2021), a Cyber Insurance Risk Framework (Framework) for insurers that write cyber insurance....more
The operator of CafePress, an online retailer that sells customizable mugs and other products, has reached an agreement with New York State Attorney General Letitia James and six other State Attorneys Generals to settle...more
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards activated the State’s cybersecurity team recently after several State offices’ computers started acting strangely. The IT team identified an intrusion of Ryuk ransomware and which programs...more
Just hours after the shooting incident at the Pensacola Air Station last week, city officials in Pensacola discovered that the city was the victim of a ransomware attack....more
Approximately 3,000 customers of the Fort Worth Water Department were notified recently that their credit card information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by its vendor, Click2Gov....more
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards activated the State’s cybersecurity team recently after several State offices’ computers started acting strangely. The IT team identified an intrusion of Ryuk ransomware, what programs were...more
Delaware (July 31, 2019) and New Hampshire (August 2, 2019) have become the latest states to add to the insurance cybersecurity landscape by enacting information security laws. These laws come on the heels of Connecticut’s...more
On July 26, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into the law the state’s new Insurance Data Security Law, which imposes new information security, risk management, and reporting requirements for carriers, producers,...more
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed a bill into law last week that expands New York’s data breach notification law. The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act brings the New York data breach...more
On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (the “SHIELD Act”), making key changes to New York’s data breach notification and cybersecurity laws....more
The Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance just released its "2018 Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report," which says “2018–Some Better, Some Worse, All Bad.” That’s our experience, too. Here are the highlights from the...more
Over the past six months, a significant number of states have amended their data breach notification statutes. Specifically, thirteen states have amended their statutes to: (1) require notice to the State Attorney General,...more