Litigation and legal developments concerning data breaches.
Top Class Actions reports: A new class action lawsuit alleges The PNC Financial Services Group failed to properly secure and safeguard personally identifiable information of its customers during a data breach earlier this year. Plaintiff Madonna Blunt claims PNC disclosed earlier this month that sensitive customer information was mistakenly provided to another client without authorization […]
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: When a cyber incident occurs and the insurer pays out the claim, they often face the frustrating reality that pursuing the actual criminals – the threat actors – for indemnification is virtually impossible. Thus, insurers are now turning to subrogation claims against the very cybersecurity vendors entrusted by policyholders to protect […]
From Covington and Burling’s Inside Privacy blog: The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA 2015”), which provided protections for sharing cybersecurity threat information with the federal government and others, officially sunset on September 30, 2025 pursuant to the law’s original sunset date after efforts to re-authorize it did not succeed. The law created a cybersecurity information […]
The Wall Street Journal reports: A deluge of data-breach lawsuits has a growing number of U.S. judges insisting victims show exactly how their leaked personal data caused “tangible harm,” a high bar that is getting more cases tossed out of court. Judges are also requiring plaintiffs to trace any damages back to a particular breach—a […]
Alamdar Hamdani of Bracewell LLP writes: Transcript: Fifteen years ago, I was part of a DOJ team working to bring Al Qaeda terrorists to justice. Today, as a former US Attorney now in private practice, I’m helping Houston companies fight a different kind of enemy—one that targets our critical infrastructure from behind keyboards across the […]
From the U.S. Department of Justice, September 16, 2025: Fitzpatrick will be serving his prison sentence at FCI Danbury.
The Register reports that coming soon, entities in China will have only one hour from discovery to report a serious cyber incident — or even only 30 minutes if it is very serious: From November 1, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) will enforce its new National Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Management Measures, a sweeping set of […]
CryptoPotato reports: A report by the Financial Times revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to issue crypto firms notices of technical violations before taking action. The move is a shift away from the aggressive enforcement approach that was pursued under former President Joe Biden. Trump-appointed SEC Chair Paul Atkins told the Financial Times in […]
Risky Biz News reports that the battle between the US and Portugal over which country gets to prosecute the owner of the RaidForums hacking forum and marketplace continues. Diogo Santos Coelho, known online as Omnipotent, is a Portuguese national who was arrested in the UK in January 2022 when he flew there to visit his […]
From the U.S. Department of Defense, now called the Department of War: On September 9, the Department of War (DoW) released the final Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program as described at 32 CFR 170.3 for public inspection in the Federal Register. The final rule will […]
