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Even if companies are prepared for the CCPA, those responsible for compliance and regulation should be keeping an eye on what other states are doing. “The one thing that is becoming an emerging area is that other states are following the lead of California and enacting their own laws,” Palmer said. “The CCPA is the […]
Plaintiffs lawyers who obtained a $1.4 billion class action settlement with Equifax over its massive data breach have asked a federal judge to approve more than $77.5 million in attorney fees to them. In a Tuesday motion, lawyers from 13 firms appointed to the multidistrict litigation said their fee request, originally disclosed in the settlement’s […]
The cybersecurity class action bar might be celebrating the holidays a bit early this year. The enthusiasm stems from a recent (but barely noticed) judicial letter from Judge Paul W. Grimm, of the United States Federal District Court for the District of Maryland, who oversees class action litigation arising out of last year’s data breach […]
Balser stepped into the Capital One case on the heels of the Equifax litigation. To represent Equifax, Balser teamed with Phyllis Sumner, King & Spalding’s chief privacy officer, who leads the firm’s data, privacy and security practice. Equifax, a credit-reporting agency, suffered a breach that compromised the personal information of 147 million of its customers. Balser negotiated […]
Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here’s a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for you, and what it says about the […]
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that two groups of federal workers can move forward with their class action lawsuits against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) over a 2015 data breach that exposed the personal information of 22 million people.According to the appeals court, the data breach left the plaintiffs vulnerable to identity theft, […]
A federal judge denied approval of a settlement in the Yahoo data breach class action on Monday, saying Yahoo’s refusal to disclose the total amount to be paid out to those affected by the largest data breach in history renders it insufficient. via Judge Denies Yahoo Privacy Data Breach Settlement.
On Tuesday, Baker & Hostetler’s Daniel Warren, a partner in Cleveland, filed a court appearance to represent Marriott before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which is hearing arguments on Jan. 31 in Miami over whether to coordinate the cases spurred by the event. Lawyers have filed about 50 class actions since the breach, which compromised […]
Yahoo must pay $50 million in damages to victims of one of the largest data breaches on record. On Monday, a settlement was filed with the United States District Court in California which laid to rest the two-year-old lawsuit. via Yahoo agrees to pay $50 million to settle data breach lawsuit | ZDNet.