Car rental company Hertz sent letters Friday to potentially impacted customers informing them of data breaches from 2024 in which bad actors might have accessed or stolen their personal information. That same day, the Office of the Maine Attorney General reported the breach. The breaches violated the file data transfer platform of Cleo Communications, a Hertz vendor.
Encryption must be preserved as an important method for security, trust, and technological control, especially in the wake of increased cybercrime, said Charlotte Le Roux and other Hogan Lovells lawyers in a blog post Monday.
With the increase in cyber and ransom attacks that feature stolen data, especially in the financial sector, companies are advised to have a response plan with strong communication and notification components, Skadden, Arps attorneys said during a fintech podcast Friday.
Nonprofit organization Food for the Poor notified more than 50,000 impacted consumers of a data breach Friday where unauthorized actors may have accessed private information. The breach was also reported to the Maine Attorney General's Office the same day.
Attorneys are preparing a potential lawsuit against the Pennsylvania State Education Association for a data breach that impacted half a million educational staff, in July 2024.
Carruth Compliance Consulting has engaged class action law firm Edelson Lechtzin to investigate possible privacy violation claims resulting from a data breach that Carruth found in some of its computer systems, the law firm said Thursday. Carruth provides administrative support to public school districts and non-profit organizations for managing retirement plans.
TikTok isn’t sharing user data with China, and there’s no indication of “internal or external malicious activity” related to the company’s U.S. data security program, HaystackID said Friday.
Minimizing the amount of data collected and stored can diminish the risk of data breach litigation and reduce storage costs, a panel of privacy experts said during an IAPP webinar Wednesday.
The data breaches that occurred as a result of negligent data security practices by two auto insurance companies, GEICO and Travelers, and the resulting settlements secured by the New York attorney general, are a recent example of why regulation of insurance companies is so important, said lawyers at a Practicing Law Institute webinar Thursday.
Secure identity company CLEAR will partner with healthcare software company Epic for identity verification, CLEAR announced Monday. Currently under construction in Epic Toolbox, the change would secure patients' access to accounts, it said.