Data breaches can prove to be disastrous for your company. Not only could you potentially face civil lawsuits and government fines for failing to adequately guard your data, but you also have to worry about the public relations fallout. Customers and employees will...
For some time now, Marriott, one of the largest hotel chains in the world, has been promoting its “Golden Rule” campaign to help promote kindness and treating others in a positive manner. However, it’s now become apparent that Marriott is in need of instituting such a...
When a data breach occurs at a company, do data breach victims have the right to sue? How is “harm” defined in data breach cases? And how much harm resulting from a data breach is needed to support a consumer lawsuit? The high-profile case CareFirst v. Attias has been...
In November 2015, electronic toy manufacturer VTech’s company’s “Learning Lodge” app store was hacked, affecting five million customers, over half of whom were not adults. While the data breach did not didn’t reveal credit card data, social security numbers, or...
In Part 1 of this series, we began to tell the story of how one simple breach of a single rule by a single employee sank a $4 million per year company called LabMD, and how the breach triggered very expensive – and extensive – litigation. As LabMD dealt with its new...
In response to a security breach in 2000 at the State Department, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told her staff, “I don’t care how skilled you are as a diplomat, how brilliant you may be at meetings, or how creative you are as an administrator – if you are...
