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We Talkin’ About Security. Or Are We? Another Look at the FTC’s Recent Settlement with Security Firm Verkada

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As we wrote about last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it had entered a proposed settlement with video equipment surveillance company Verkada over the company’s alleged security failures....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Intercontinental Exchange Settles with SEC Over Alleged Delay in Notification of Hack

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has agreed to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for $10 million over allegations that it failed to timely notify the SEC...more

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$8 Million Multistate Settlement Resolves 2019 Data Breach Investigation

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State Attorneys General settle with Wawa, Inc. for 2019 data breach that compromised approximately 34 million payment cards used by consumers. On July 26, 2022, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

New Enforcement Threat: 'Coordinated' AGs Pursuing Settlements Following Big Breaches

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 12 (December 10, 2020) - In late September, Anthem Inc. entered into a $39.5 million settlement for a 2014 data breach that affected nearly 79 million individuals. About a week later,...more

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Interactive Newsletter: Inside the Privacy Shield Annual Review

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Inside the Privacy Shield Annual Review - Dozens of senior US and EU government officials were joined by officials from data protection authorities in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Hungary to discuss whether the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Yahoo! Data Breach Estimated to Cost Successor Company Net $47 Million

Altaba Inc., the successor company of Yahoo Inc., recently noted in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that after its settlement of consumer and shareholder suits relating to Yahoo’s data breach that...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Uber’s Latest Headache

An expanded settlement by the Federal Trade Commission with ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies should serve as a lesson to other businesses about what happens when a company fails to disclose a data breach during an ongoing...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Predicts $1 Billion Settlement in Data Breach Case – But Where’s the “Harm”?

This week, a high profile plaintiffs’ firm (Edelson) stated that “if done right,” the data breach class actions against Equifax should yield more than $1 billion in cash going directly to more than 143 million consumers...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Gone Phishin’: Hack Leads to HIPAA Settlement

Earlier this week, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $400,000 settlement with Metro Community Provider Network (“MCPN”) related to a 2012 HIPAA breach caused by a phishing scam. The phishing scam, carried...more

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Investment Adviser and SEC Agree to Settle Charges Arising out of Failure to Adopt Written Cybersecurity Policies Required by the...

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The SEC charged investment adviser R.T. Jones with willfully violating the Safeguards Rule by failing to adopt written policies and procedures designed to protect customer records and information. The Safeguards Rule requires...more

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