The surge in data breach lawsuits is a result of the rise in breaches and plaintiffs’ lawyers determining that such litigation is a lucrative space, said Jackson Lewis attorneys in a podcast Thursday. Courts are also helping make these suits easier to bring and speed counts, they added.
A recent data breach at French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton previously thought to have only impacted customers overseas may have exposed the personal information of U.S. customers as well, a law firm said Wednesday. Multiple states also reported the breach recently.
TransUnion suffered a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of more than 4.4 million of the credit agency's customers, it told the Maine attorney general's office on Wednesday.
A breach at an Ohio firm that helps patients obtain physician-certified medical marijuana cards may have exposed the sensitive information of more than 900,000 of its customers, a law firm investigating the incident said Tuesday.
A Michigan-based health system with more than 70 providers suffered a data breach last year that exposed personal information of almost 140,000 individuals, a law firm said Monday. Two states also recently reported the breach of Aspire Rural Health System. The company may have violated state and federal laws by disclosing the breach well after it occurred.
Farmers Insurance may have suffered a breach that leaked the sensitive information of more than a million customers, a law firm investigating the incident said Monday. Multiple states also reported the breach recently.
The breach and subsequent lawsuit against a winemaker that allegedly compromised the data of 26,000 customers "underscores the vulnerability of companies handling sensitive customer information," McDermott Will lawyers said in a blog post Thursday.
Though protection of customer and consumer data often dominates privacy professionals' conversation, safeguarding sensitive employee information is just as important, said Downs Rachlin lawyers in a blog post Wednesday. "In today’s digital world, keeping your team’s data safe isn’t just a nice-to-have -- it’s absolutely crucial," said Matthew Borick and Jennifer Drake.
Fundamental Administrative Services suffered a data security event that may have exposed the personal data of some of its long-term care residents, the health consultant announced on Friday.
The security of patient data shared with the Trump administration’s HealthTech Initiative will depend on participating companies’ existing controls, not regulation, attorneys at Orrick said Friday (see 2508040021).