Sentences with phrase «investigations of data breaches»

«IT professionals have also been pressed into investigations of data breaches,» he notes.

The unlicensed bitcoin exchange, Coin.mx, was linked to an investigation of a data breach at J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm) that exposed more than 83 million accounts.

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Seven in 10 of the cyber break - ins analyzed in Verizon's 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report occurred at organizations with 100 employees or less.

On February 26, 2018, post-market, Fresenius announced that it is conducting an independent investigation, using external experts, into alleged breaches of U.S. Food and Drug Administration data integrity requirements relating to product development at Akorn.

According to Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, about 50 percent of all security incidents — any event that compromises the confidentiality, integrity or availability of an information asset — are caused by people inside an organization.

The Equifax data breach was even worse than initially feared, say Senate Democrats who accuse the CFPB for its lack of a «robust investigation» and plans to make its complaint database private.

Facebook has insisted it did not breach the terms of consent decree, even as the FTC has launched an investigation into Facebook's data sharing practices.

Democratic lawmakers lashed out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday amid a report that the agency was backing off an investigation into a massive data breach at Equifax last year that exposed sensitive data about millions of people.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is launching an investigation into the data breach of credit reporting bureau Equifax.

The state Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into the data breach that occurred after Questar Assessment Inc. of Apple Valley, Minnesota, administered the statewide test to elementary and middle school students, officials said.

In January, a data breach exposed personal information of about 52 students in five New York schools, leading to an investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office.

Breaking news: The embattled head of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, the institution at the center of a data breach involving the release of more than 1000 e-mails among prominent climate scientists, has resigned pending the ongoing investigation.

TELECOMPAPER - July 29 - French data protection agency CNIL has served notice to eight dating sites including Meetic, Attractive World, AdopteUnMec, Easyflirt, Rencontre and Mektoube after an investigation revealed a number of breaches of privacy.

In July 2016, Kimpton Hotels announced its investigation of a possible data breach.

... While no criminal proceedings will be instigated, the investigation has concluded that the data breach was the result of a «sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack on the CRU's data files, carried out remotely via the internet».]

This has led to criminal and regulatory investigations by US and UK authorities as well as a litany of civil actions for, amongst other things, negligence claiming that Equifax ought to known that its systems were fragile after previous breaches and that it failed to take adequate or reasonable care in its data security arrangements.

Internal investigation and remediation of a data security breach at a Fortune 50 company; civil prosecution of entity responsible for the security breach.

Our experience includes representing clients in a variety of matters involving alleged employee misconduct in investigations of data security breaches by the U.S. Department of Education.

For nearly 30 years, Ron Breaux has focused his practice on complex commercial litigation, the defense of corporations and executives in federal investigations and trials, antitrust, internal corporate investigations and government investigations, and data breach matters.

Because JAMS provides alternative dispute resolution mechanisms that operate in accordance with judicial procedures, we may also deny or limit access to personal data in the following contexts: (i) interference with law enforcement or with private causes of action, including the prevention, investigation or detection of offenses or the right to a fair trial, arbitration or mediation; (ii) disclosure where the legitimate rights or important interests of others would be violated; (iii) breaching a legal or other professional privilege or obligation; (iv) prejudicing employee security investigations or grievance proceedings or in connection with employee succession planning and corporate reorganizations; or (v) prejudicing the confidentiality necessary in monitoring, inspection or regulatory functions connected with sound management, or in future or ongoing negotiations involving JAMS.

Canada Bell apologizes to customers after data breach hits 1.9 million e-mail addresses, Globe and Mail Indigenous group says inquiry into missing and murdered women a failure, Globe and Mail Sentencing hearing starts for teen in deadly school shooting in Saskatchewan, Canadian Press United States Trump says he has «absolute right» to share facts with Russians, Reuters More Americans want «independent» investigation of Trump: Reuters / Ipsos poll, Reuters International Researchers say global cyber attack similar to North Korean hacks, Reuters Ukraine imposes sanctions on Russian web firms, citing cyber threat, Reuters

He is a former Am Law 100 commercial litigator with more than 20 years of experience in assisting companies in complex litigation and regulatory investigations in the areas of electronic discovery, data analytics, compliance audits, data breaches, and forensic investigations.

In a rare move, the FTC spokesman Peter Kaplan released an e-mail statement confirming the ongoing investigation, stating: «In light of the intense public interest and the potential impact of this matter, I can confirm that FTC staff is investigating the Equifax data breach».

The bill is another blow to Equifax who are still reeling from one of the largest data breaches in US history, resulting in 143 million people being left with un-protected data and are already under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission following pressure from Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer last week.

According to the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware is the fifth most common form of malware and is expected to grow this year.

Corrs Cyber provides businesses with unparalleled access to a combined team of data breach management specialists, including legal advisors, IT forensic investigation specialists, cyber risk, incident response consultants, and crisis and reputation management services.

The Hawai`i Office of Consumer Protection has announced that it has opened an investigation into the data breach.

He has taken part in matters involving theft of Intellectual Property, data breach, HIPAA violations, sexual harassment allegations, FDIC investigations, and general ediscovery collections.

He oversaw investigations and prosecutions involving significant cyber breaches of personal and financial data, sales of the use of «botnets,» cyber frauds committed against multinational corporations, and insider trading schemes that obtained confidential information through cyber breaches.

He has 30 years of experience representing companies, boards, and individual officers and directors in a broad range of high - stakes commercial litigation and investigation matters, including in the areas of antitrust and unfair competition, intellectual property, securities, consumer class actions, contracts, data breaches and professional malpractice.

As a partner with Roetzel and Andress, Nicole conducted internal investigations of companies when fraud was suspected, conducted risk assessments of corporate high - risk areas, and investigated data breach incidents.

Preventing data privacy breaches is becoming increasingly important, with the increasing costs of dealing with cyber attacks, IT security breaches, and the subsequent legal actions and regulatory investigations.

We are well versed in data breach response, remediation, coordination, and litigation, including investigations by the U.S. Office of Civil Rights and state AGs.

Of course, the majority of solo and small firm attorneys do not meet state requirements for data protection, in part because they are (perhaps ironically), taking a calculated risk — there have not been many high - profile data breach investigations made against or penalties imposed upon solo and small firm lawyerOf course, the majority of solo and small firm attorneys do not meet state requirements for data protection, in part because they are (perhaps ironically), taking a calculated risk — there have not been many high - profile data breach investigations made against or penalties imposed upon solo and small firm lawyerof solo and small firm attorneys do not meet state requirements for data protection, in part because they are (perhaps ironically), taking a calculated risk — there have not been many high - profile data breach investigations made against or penalties imposed upon solo and small firm lawyers.

His expertise includes cyber preparedness, incident response, information governance, data privacy, data breach regulatory response, government and internal investigations, reputation management, and the cybersecurity fiduciary duties of directors and officers.

She has also advised clients subject to regulatory investigations and litigation involving a spectrum of federal and state laws, including under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Gramm - Leach - Bliley Act (GLBA), state data breach notification laws, California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) and others.

Complaint investigations and random audits, performed by federal and state investigators, as well as outside contractors, will identify businesses at risk — and self - reporting rules will identify others when they must disclose their data breaches on The Wall of Shame.

Clark Hill PLC Of Counsel David G. Ries discusses data security, Mandiant's M - Trends, and Verizon's Data Breach Investigation Repodata security, Mandiant's M - Trends, and Verizon's Data Breach Investigation RepoData Breach Investigation Reports.

Government investigations and white collar defense partner Tina Sciocchetti and commercial litigation associate Michal Ovadia co-authored this column that discusses a federal district court's dismissal of a putative class action filed on the heels of the health insurer's disclosure of a data breach involving approximately 1.1 million plan members.

She provides counseling and representation in all forms of consumer protection matters, and regularly assists clients with privacy and data security compliance audits, forensic investigations related to information practices, data security breach notification procedures and represents companies before state and federal regulators on a range of consumer protection compliance matters.

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the Privacy Commissioner) published an announcement responding to complaints relating to the Equifax data breach and also launched an official investigation into the situation.

Verizon recently published its «2015 Data Breach Investigations Report,» which highlighted a number of interesting trends.

Mr. Tantleff has conducted investigations of data security breaches and has identified and proposed best practices in light of those breaches.

Record - keeping plays a key role in the oversight regime — the Commissioner can conduct an audit or launch an investigation based on a record or group of data breach records.

The biggest risk that comes from a stolen email address is that you or someone you know might be targeted by phishing attacks, which accounted for 20 percent of recorded data breach incidents in this year's annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations repdata breach incidents in this year's annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations rbreach incidents in this year's annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations repData Breach Investigations rBreach Investigations report.

Growing calls in US and UK for investigations to explain data breach affecting tens of millions

Facebook and the analytics company that worked with Donald Trump's election team have come under mounting pressure, with calls for investigations and hearings to explain a vast data breach that affected tens of millions of people.

Some called for investigations into whether Mr Zuckerberg's company may have violated laws governing disclosure of a data breach - and also rules on properly obtaining a user's consent to collect personal information.

The company at the centre of the Facebook data breach boasted of using honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world, a new investigation reveals.