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Data Dump! AshleyMadison.com Fallout Deepens

August 20, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

The Impact Team, the vigilante group behind the hacking of the infamous website AshleyMadison.com has followed through on its threat to leak the full database of the site’s users online. On Tuesday, August 18, 2015, an impressive 9.7 gigabytes of compressed data was posted to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser. 
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Breaking News: Target to Settle Data Breach Claims of Visa Card Issuers for $67 Million

August 18, 2015 | Blog | By Kevin McGinty, Cynthia Larose

Target has announced that it has entered into a settlement with Visa to resolve claims of issuers of Visa credit and debit cards arising from Target’s November 2013 data breach. The proposed settlement will pay issuers of Visa payment cards up to $67 million to reimburse losses associated with the theft of card numbers from Target POS terminals.
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Privacy Monday - August 17, 2015: Three Bytes for End of Summer

August 17, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

It's Privacy Monday again - and summer is winding down.
Here are three bytes of privacy/security information to start your week:
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EU Data Protection Regulation – Did you know there’s an app for that?

August 6, 2015 | Blog

As EU data protection watchers know, the draft General Data Protection Regulation (which has been around long enough to be universally referred to by its acronym, GDPR) exists in three major versions, with a fourth version recently released by the office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
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Neiman Marcus Chides Seventh Circuit Panel

August 5, 2015 | Blog | By Kevin McGinty

Retailer Neiman Marcus has filed a petition seeking en banc review by the entire Seventh Circuit of the decision by a three-judge panel of that court in Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, LLC reversing dismissal of consumer data breach claims for lack of standing.  
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Massachusetts Appeals Court Set to Consider Scope of Employer Liability for Employee Data Breaches

August 4, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

Many of the highest-profile and headline-catching data breaches involve external breaches of a company’s electronic systems. But the reality that these headlines obscure is the fact that internal data breaches are generally more prevalent and represent a primary source of concern for data security managers.
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Privacy Monday - August 3, 2015

August 3, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

It's the first Monday in August ... and time for all those "back to school" ads.
While you enjoy what is left of the summer of 2015, we will kick off your week with a few privacy and security bits and bytes.
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Data Breach = Class Action Suit. Again.

July 23, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

In yet another data breach affecting millions of individuals, UCLA Health System (“UCLA”) reported on Friday - July 17, 2015 - that hackers had accessed portions of its health network that contained personal information, including names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, medical record numbers, Medicare or health plan ID numbers, and some medical information (including medical conditions, medications, procedures, and test results).
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Change in the Prevailing Winds in Consumer Data Breach Cases?

July 22, 2015 | Blog | By Kevin McGinty, Cynthia Larose

In Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, LLC, the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court decision dismissing consumer payment card data breach claims for lack of standing. 
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Federal Court Dismisses (Without Prejudice) CNA’s Cyber Insurance Lawsuit

July 21, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose, Nancy Adams

We previously reported here that CNA filed a lawsuit against its insured Cottage Health System seeking reimbursement of amounts that it previously paid under Cottage’s cyber liability insurance policy.  
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Privacy Monday - July 20, 2015: Hack Attack on Adultery Site Ashley Madison

July 20, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

It's Monday! Once again, data breaches and hacks are front and center, so here are three stories you should know about to start your week.
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Privacy Monday - July 13, 2015

July 13, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

Welcome to the dog days of summer 2015. Three privacy & security bits and bytes to start your week (if you are reading this on vacation ... good for you!)
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Home Depot Moves to Dismiss Bank Data Breach Claims on Standing and Ripeness Grounds

July 8, 2015 | Blog | By Kevin McGinty

In its recently-filed motion to dismiss claims of card-issuing banks arising from the September 2014 theft of payment card data from Home Depot point of sale terminals, Home Depot employs an approach typically used to respond to consumer claims.
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Recognizable Faces Disappear from Facial Recognition Meetings

June 25, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

Facing “industry stakeholders [that] were unable to agree on any concrete scenario” in which affirmative consent should be obtained from individuals before employing facial recognition technologies, nine consumer advocacy organizations made an about-face and withdrew from the multistakeholder process coordinated by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”).
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REMINDER: Everything you always wanted to know about risk assessments - TODAY

June 24, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

Don’t forget to register for our upcoming webinar discussion with an expert panel on Risk Assessments!
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Privacy Monday - June 22, 2015

June 22, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

The first Privacy Monday of the summer!
It's appropriate that the "boys of summer" feature prominently in today's post.
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New Hampshire Establishes Privacy Protections for Student Online Personal Information

June 17, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose, Julia Siripurapu

California again has provided a model of privacy legislation for other states to follow. New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan recently signed into law House Bill 520 (the “Bill”), a bipartisan effort to establish guidelines for the protection of student online personal information.
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Connecticut Amends Data Breach Notification Law

June 16, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

In the absence of any meaningful moves in Congress to enact uniform data breach notification, the states continue to make adjustments to existing laws to better protect affected residents in their states.
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Privacy Monday - June 15, 2015 - OPM Hack

June 15, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

The news continues to pour in about the two-part massive hack into the federal government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the compromise of personal information of millions of present and former federal employees.
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UPDATE: Union Claims that Hackers Have Accessed Personal Data of "All" Federal Employees

June 12, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

As an update to our blog post, "Data Breach Affects Millions of Current and Former Government Workers", a union representing federal workers is now claiming that the hack may be worse than originally feared.
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