Legal News, News
April 13, 2025
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Justice Department Implements Critical National Security Program to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries

Department Answers Frequently Asked Questions, Provides Guidance, and Issues Limited Enforcement Policy for First 90 Days Today, the Justice Department took significant steps to move forward with implementing a critical program to prevent China, Russia, Iran, and other foreign adversaries from using commercial activities to access and exploit U.S. government-related data and Americans’ sensitive personal […]

Legal News, News
April 10, 2025
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Senator puts hold on Trump’s nominee for CISA director, citing telco security ‘cover up’

TechCrunch reports: Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has put a hold on the Trump administration’s nomination of Sean Plankey to head the federal government’s top cybersecurity agency, citing a “multi-year cover up” of security flaws at U.S. telecommunication companies. Wyden said in remarks, seen by TechCrunch and confirmed by the senator’s spokesperson, that he will block the nomination […]

Legal News, Data Breach News
April 10, 2025
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2024 Year in Review: Data Breach Litigation

The WilmerHale law firm provides a recap of trends in 2024: One of the main risks for a company in the event of a data breach is the threat of litigation. Data breach litigation continued to proliferate in 2024, as it has in prior years. In the past year, plaintiffs continued to seek relief following […]

Legal News
April 06, 2025
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Medibank to Appeal Court Decision on Cybercrime Reports

TipRanks reports: Medibank Private Ltd. is responding to a Federal Court decision regarding a consumer class action linked to a 2022 cybercrime event. The court ruled that Deloitte’s reports were not protected by legal professional privilege, while Medibank’s claims for privilege on other reports were upheld. Medibank plans to appeal the decision concerning the Deloitte reports, which […]

Legal News
April 04, 2025
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Summary of Court Approved Legal Notice for Azura Vascular Care Data Breach Settlement

As seen on PRNewswire: A proposed $3.15 million Settlement arising out of a Data Breach has been reached with Fresenius Vascular Care, Inc. d/b/a Azura Vascular Care (“Azura”). Between September 27, 2023, and October 9, 2023, an unauthorized third party potentially gained access to Settlement Class Members’ Personal Information (the “Data Breach”). Personal Information could […]

Legal News
April 03, 2025
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TikTok reportedly faces a €500 million fine for sending private user data to China

engadget reports: TikTok will reportedly face a fine of over €500 million ($553 million) for transferring Europeans’ private data to China. Bloomberg said on Thursday that Ireland’s data protection commission, which regulates TikTok owner ByteDance’s EU operations, could dish out the penalty before the end of April. The fine results from a four-year investigation of TikTok’s data handling practices. The […]

Legal News, Critical Infrastructure, News
April 01, 2025
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UK sets out new cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure

The Record reports that in a policy statement published Tuesday, the British government set out what its forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will include when it is introduced to parliament later this year: The belated reworking of the country’s cybersecurity regulations comes three years after the previous government had prematurely described those laws as “updated” while […]

Legal News, Data Breach News
March 30, 2025
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T-Mobile customers to get payments up to $25K next month after data breach: Here’s who qualifies

The Hill reports: The $350 million T-Mobile agreed to pay in a 2022 class action settlement will finally start going out to customers next month. The class action lawsuit came after a cyberattack in August 2021 compromised the personal data of 76 million T-Mobile customers in the U.S. The data that was breached included customers’ […]

Legal News, Data Breach News
March 29, 2025
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$6.8M Rite Aid data breach class action settlement

Top Class Actions reports: Rite Aid agreed to a $6.8 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2024 data breach that compromised customer information. The settlement benefits consumers whose personal information was compromised in the Rite Aid data breach on June 6, 2024. According to the lawsuit, Rite Aid […]