California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Cyber Crimes

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2024 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/18/2024

CYBERSECURITY - New Threat: Scattered Spider International Coalition of Hackers - Cyber adversaries in China and Russia continue to be a formidable threat to U.S. based companies. In the past, scams might be detected...more

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 27

Dechert LLP on 2/3/2023

FBI Seizes Hive Ransomware Servers—Blocks US$130 Million in Demanded Ransoms - On January 26, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Department of Justice dismantled the “Hive” ransomware group, which had...more

Privacy Report: California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Draft CPRA Regulations

ArentFox Schiff on 6/8/2022

California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Draft CPRA Regulations - The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) just released proposed California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) regulations. The regulations expand...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2021 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/27/2021

CYBERSECURITY - New Jersey Settles with Cancer Center Over Business Email Compromise - One of the challenging things about HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) enforcement is the fact that both the...more

Bose Added to List of High-Profile Companies Who Have Suffered Ransomware Attack

ArentFox Schiff on 6/14/2021

Crippling data breaches and sophisticated ransomware attacks are increasingly common threats to modern businesses. Ransomware attacks can not only target confidential company data and data collected from customers but...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2021 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/9/2021

CYBERSECURITY - 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

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2021 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/19/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Ironic Justice: WeLeakInfo Users’ Information Compromised - In the category of “you can’t make this up, but satisfyingly ironic,” it was recently reported that criminals who used the WeLeakInfo database...more

New York’s DFS Publishes A Cyber Insurance Risk Framework

Husch Blackwell LLP on 3/9/2021

Keypoint: New York’s Division of Financial Services (DFS) now requires Property and Casualty Insurers writing cyber insurance to comply with the Division’s Cyber Insurance Risk Framework to manage their risk. In her...more

US Cybersecurity and Data Privacy review and update: Looking back on our 2020 articles and planning ahead for 2021

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 2/10/2021

It was a tumultuous year for privacy and cybersecurity, and further uncertainty is all but guaranteed. The key to navigating this volatility, as 2020 proved, is to develop and maintain a proactive, agile and holistic data...more

Hanna Andersson and Salesforce Receive Preliminary Approval for Settlement of CCPA-Based Class Action Litigation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/6/2021

In 2019, Hanna Andersson, a children’s apparel store, suffered a data breach while using a Salesforce e-commerce platform. As a result of the breach, customers filed a class action lawsuit, alleging customer data was stolen...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/14/2020

CYBERSECURITY - City of Hartford Hit with Ransomware Attack, Causing School Delay - Cyber-attackers know that city and town officials have been gearing up for the start of school and the potential for remote learning,...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/28/2020

Cyber-Attacks Against Maritime Industry Quadrupled in Last Few Months - A recent report released by the British Ports Association and Astaara, a risk management firm based in the U.K., concludes that since February of 2020,...more

COVID-19’s Impact on Cybersecurity – Don’t Let Your Data Privacy, Security and Regulatory Compliance Waver

Harris Beach PLLC on 6/24/2020

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on nearly all aspects of organizations nationwide – from employee safety to reimagined workplaces to financial hardships. But cyber protection and response during the pandemic cannot take a...more

12 Ways to Ensure Strong Cybersecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Harris Beach PLLC on 4/13/2020

In addition to the upheaval and emergency measures taken to combat the COVID-19 virus, organizations are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. A key driver of that vulnerability is an at-home workforce using older...more

Buchalter Client Alert Covid-19: Cybercrimes

Buchalter on 3/27/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic have opened the floodgates of cybercrime, as hackers are exploiting distracted workers adjusting to working from home. This alert highlights a number of these issues and its relationship with California...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/14/2020

Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more

In Data Privacy, How Smart Is Your Data?

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 2/5/2020

Over the last few years, data privacy has been brought in to the public focus more than ever before. What information is being collected about you, how is it being used, and who has the ability to access it. ...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/18/2019

A recent Ponemon Institute study finds that small and mid-sized businesses continue to be targeted by cybercriminals, and are struggling to direct an appropriate amount of resources to combat the attacks. ...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2019 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/23/2019

The Ecuadorian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Security has announced an investigation into data analytics company Novaestrat after news broke this week that the company left an Elasticsearch server open...more

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