Last week, the Second Circuit in McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Assocs., LLC, No. 19-4310, weighed in on whether data-breach plaintiffs can establish Article III standing based on the theory that the theft or
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DLA Piper GDPR Data Breach Survey 2020
Over 160,000 data breach notifications have been reported across the 28 European Union Member States plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein since the GDPR came into force on 25 May 2018
According to DLA Piper’s …
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Breach and cyber incident reporting: disclosure challenges for public companies
One of the big corporate governance-related stories last month was the settlement agreement between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Facebook Inc. arising from the misuse of Facebook user data and disclosures in Facebook’s…
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Surviving the service provider data breach
Service provider cyber incidents have exploded in volume, type, frequency, response time and cost. That makes sense because the surface attack area for most organizations now expands beyond their networks and devices to those controlled…
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Lessons learned from the SEC’s Facebook settlement
Much has been written about preventing breaches. But what should companies think about doing when they become aware of a breach?
Sanjay M. Shirodkar discusses the lessons learned from the SEC’s Facebook settlement. Click here…
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The price of data security: A guide to the insurability of GDPR fines across Europe
DLA Piper and Aon Cyber Solutions have published the second Edition of ‘The Price of Data Security: A guide to the insurability of GDPR fines across Europe’.
The scale of fines following the implementation of …
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GDPR Data Breach Report
A report produced by DLA Piper’s cybersecurity team
On 25 May 2018 new data breach notification laws came into force across Europe, fundamentally changing the risk profile for organizations suffering a personal data breach.