This week, a proposed data breach class action against Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc. was settled for $2.35 million in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas with approval of the settlement terms by...more
8/20/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Class Action ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Statutory Violations ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
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Cryptoheister(s) Return Stolen Booty -
Cryptocurrency platform Poly Network, which allows users to swap different types of digital tokens, was the victim of a cryptoheist that resulted in the thief...more
8/13/2021
/ Agribusiness ,
COPPA ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Dark Web ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware
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Law Enforcement Takes Down DoubleVPN -
I love seeing another win for law enforcement in the cyber context. Servers and web domains owned by DoubleVPN, a virtual private network, were seized recently...more
7/2/2021
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Microsoft ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Scams ,
Volkswagen
This week, Volkswagen AG’s U.S. entity and its Audi brand were hit with a class action for a data breach that allegedly compromised 3.3 million consumers’ personal information. ...more
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Fertility Clinic in Georgia Notifies Patients of Data Breach -
Reproductive Biology Associates, LLC (RBA) and its affiliate, MyEggBank, notified approximately 38,000 patients that a data breach...more
Last week, Impact MHC, a Colorado-based mobile home park management company, agreed to pay $25,000 to the Colorado Attorney General’s office and implement new security measures after a data breach of more than 15,000...more
Lifespace Communities (Lifespace) Inc., a retirement community chain with more than 15 communities in eight states, recently settled a class action for $987,850 for its alleged violation of the Illinois Biometric Information...more
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Coveware Q1 2021 Report Shows Increase in Ransomware Payments Over Q4 2020 Coveware issued its Q1 2021 -
Ransomware Report on April 26, 2021, which concludes that “[D]ata exfiltration extortion continues...more
5/7/2021
/ Apple ,
Contact Tracing ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Girl Scouts ,
Kroger ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware
In Gates v. Eagle Family Foods in the Northern District of Illinois, Gregory Gates, a former sanitation and assembly line employee, alleges that Eagle Foods collected and retained his handprints without consent as part...more
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Eversource Energy Notifies Customers of Data Breach -
Eversource Energy, which is the largest energy supplier in New England with 4.3 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New...more
4/30/2021
/ Apple ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
iPhone ,
NYDFS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
SolarWinds
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NSA Issues New Warning About Four Critical Patches to Microsoft Exchange Servers -
The National Security Agency (NSA) recently issued a warning to private industry about four zero-day vulnerabilities in...more
4/23/2021
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Drones ,
Facebook Inc v Duguid ,
Hackers ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
NBA ,
NYDFS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
SCOTUS
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Cisco/Talos Researchers Find Attackers Using Slack and Discord to Distribute Malware -
Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos...more
4/16/2021
/ Automatic License Plate Readers ,
Biometric Information ,
Cisco ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Microsoft ,
Mobile Apps ,
NAIC ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information
North American IT company Presidio faces a proposed data breach class action by an employee for an incident involving employee data. Eric LaPrairie, a former Presidio employee, received a notice of a data breach from...more
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FBI and DHS/CISA Issue Joint Alert on Mamba Ransomware -
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) recently issued a joint alert with the Department of Homeland Security/Cybersecurity Infrastructure and...more
4/9/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
DMV ,
FBI ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Malware ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware
The California Attorney General recently approved modified regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). One part of the modified regulations bans “dark patterns” on a website. What are dark patterns?...more
4/9/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Information Governance ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
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GAO Report Identifies Need for DOE to Address Risks to Electrical Distribution System -
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently completed and published a study on electricity...more
4/2/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Email ,
FBI ,
GAO ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Infrastructure ,
OCR ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Right of Access ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Wal-Mart
Gardiner v. Walmart provided some guidance as to the specificity required to state a claim under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the types of damages that may be recoverable for breaches of California consumer...more
4/2/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Dark Web ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Policy ,
Terms of Use ,
Wal-Mart ,
Websites
CYBERSECURITY -
$50 Million Ransom Demand is Largest Ever -
In what is being reported as the largest ransom demand ever, Taiwanese electronics and computer manufacturer Acer has reportedly been hit with a ransomware...more
3/26/2021
/ Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Facebook ,
Hackers ,
Honeywell International ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Vaccinations ,
Vulnerability Assessments
CYBERSECURITY -
Microsoft Releases Additional Resources for Exchange Flaws and CISA Issues Alert -
As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is...more
3/12/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Hackers ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Microsoft ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Preemption ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Surveillance ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Wal-Mart
A new commercial has hit the airwaves in Israel. It begins with a door swinging open to reveal a beautiful seaside patio with a couple awaiting their dinners as a voiceover says, “How much have we missed going out with...more
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Free Ransomware Service Offered to U.S. Hospitals -
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) announced last week that it has launched the Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting (MDBR) service to assist...more
2/26/2021
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Driverless Cars ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Information Technology ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Right of Access ,
WhatsApp
CYBERSECURITY -
Health and Personal Information of N.C. Residents Posted Online by Ransomware Group -
Becker’s Health IT reports that two batches of sensitive information of Chatham County, N.C. residents have been posted...more
2/19/2021
/ Article III ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Right of Access ,
Standing
Last week, in Tsao v. Captiva MVP Restaurant Partners, LLC (Captiva), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit held that data breach claims arising from increased risk of future identity theft and potential mitigation...more
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Ransomware Incident Compromises Unemployment Claim Information of 1.6M in WA -
It is being reported that the Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) is investigating a security incident, allegedly...more
2/5/2021
/ 1099s ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
FCC ,
Fertility Treatments ,
Hackers ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NIST ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Tax Fraud ,
TCPA ,
Unemployment Benefits
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its settlement with Everalbum Inc. (Everalbum) for its Ever app, a photo and video storage app, due to its alleged deception of consumers related to the app’s use of facial...more