Data Breach News, Legal News, News
March 19, 2025
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Australia Sues FIIG Investment Firm in Cyber ‘Wake-Up Call’

Data Breach Today reports that Australia’s financial regulator has filed a lawsuit against FIIG Securities over cybersecurity failures that enabled a threat actor to steal confidential personal information of 18,000 customers: The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it decided to sue Brisbane-headquartered FIIG Securities in Federal Court after observing the company’s “systemic and prolonged cybersecurity failures” […]

Legal News
March 18, 2025
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2025 State Privacy Laws Taking Effect: Key Compliance Considerations for Employers and Businesses

Fisher & Phillips LLP writes: With eight states rolling out new privacy laws in 2025 and many more already on the books, businesses have never faced a more fragmented regulatory landscape. These laws will expand consumer rights, impose stricter data governance obligations, and create a complex compliance environment for businesses operating across state lines. While […]

Legal News
March 17, 2025
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Courts Are Still Willing To Dismiss Data Breach Lawsuits for Lack of Standing

From the law firm of BakerHostetler: In data breach litigation, courts generally find plaintiffs have standing such that their complaints may proceed past the pleading stage when it is alleged that sensitive information was impacted and there is an allegation of dark web exposure, misuse or fraud. However, a few courts have recently dismissed proposed […]

Legal News, News, Vendor News
March 16, 2025
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TRICARE Contractor Resolves $11M False Claims Act Liability for Known Cybersecurity Violations

Tycko & Zavareei Whistleblower Practice Group writes: February 2025 saw an important False Claims Act settlement involving allegations of known cybersecurity failures by Health Net Federal Services Inc. (HNFS), a government contractor that provides TRICARE healthcare management services to active duty military members and their families. HNFS as well as its parent corporation Centene agreed […]

Data Breach News, Legal News, News
March 15, 2025
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Judge Calls for Change Healthcare Data Breach Lawsuits in State and Federal Courts To Be Coordinated

About Lawsuits reports that all the state and federal lawsuits against Change Healthcare should be coordinated: The U.S. District Judge appointed to preside over all Change Healthcare data breach lawsuits brought throughout the federal court system has issued an order, outlining a plan to coordinate the pretrial proceedings in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) with claims pending […]

Legal News, Malware Ransomware, News
March 14, 2025
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Dual Russian And Israeli National Extradited To The United States For His Role In The LockBit Ransomware Conspiracy

The U.S. Department of Justice announced: A dual Russian and Israeli national was extradited to the United States on charges that he was a developer of the LockBit ransomware group, United States Attorney John Giordano announced. In August, Rostislav Panev, 51, was arrested in Israel pursuant to a U.S. provisional arrest request.  Today, Panev was […]

Data Breach News, Legal News
March 08, 2025
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$25M loanDepot data breach class action settlement

Top Class Actions reports: Mortgage lender loanDepot agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2024 data breach that compromised the information of 16.9 million customers. The loanDepot settlement benefits individuals who received a data breach notice from loanDepot informing them their information may have been compromised in a data […]

Legal News, Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware
March 04, 2025
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care to pay $16 million to settle data breach litigation

Teiss reports: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and its parent company, Point32Health, have reached a $16 million settlement to resolve claims arising from a 2023 ransomware attack that compromised the sensitive data of nearly three million individuals. The agreement follows multiple class action lawsuits that were consolidated into a single case in the U.S. District Court […]

Data Breach News, Legal News, News
February 23, 2025
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Nude photos of Beverly Hills plastic surgery patients exposed in data hacks, lawsuit alleges

The Los Angeles Times reports: A celebrity Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who has appeared on television shows including “Botched” and “The Doctors,” is being sued by patients who allege that their nude photos were published online after he was hacked — twice — and that he waited months to inform them of the data breaches. […]

Legal News
February 23, 2025
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New York’s Health Information Privacy Act Poised to Become the Latest in a Growing Trend of State Data Privacy Laws

Seen at Epstein Becker Green’s Health Law Advisor: New York State appears poised to become the fourth state to explicitly regulate consumer health data not covered by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In May of 2023, Washington State enacted the My Health My Data Act; in June of 2023, Connecticut amended […]