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Category Archives: retail data breach
Legal Trend: Cost of Monitoring is Damages for a Data Breach lawsuit
The Neiman Marcus data breach lawsuit can continue according to the 7th Circuit.
Courts have wrangled with whether a person who had her information stolen in a dat abreach must have had that information used in a manner to cause harm before a lawsuit can continue.
The 7th Circuit said no to that specific standard and is allowing more damages like the cost of credit monitoring.
Retail Data Breach Lawsuit Feeds Shareholder Inquiry into Corporate Records
HomeDepot Shareholders are taking action against Home Depot. They have filed suit to request corporate documents, potentially for the purpose of investigating wrongdoing by corporate officers or directors.
Data Breach at the Zoo
A company that controls concession stands at 9 zoos across the country announced a data breach just in time for summer tourism.
National Association of Professional (Insurance) Agents Ramps Up Data Breach Insurance
NAPA has new data breach compliance and certification. Data breaches are big business, people.
Data breaches and protecting against data breaches generate:
- Big legislative pushes
- New regulations
- Procurement Opportunities (hello, $21M emergency contract that the federal data breach sparked)
Data breaches impact:
- bankers, credit unions, financial institutions
- retailers
- corporations
- new lawsuit filings
- health data
- student data
- +more
Lege trend: 6 Ways the Home of the Ducks Strengthens Data Breach Law
- “Expands the statute’s definition of “personal information” to include a resident’s biometric or medial information;
- Requires entities or persons that own or license consumer personal information to notify the Oregon Attorney General of a data breach if the entity must notify more than 250 residents;
- Raises the threshold for notifying Oregon consumers to a more generous “unlikely to suffer harm” standard;
- Lowers the threshold for reporting to consumer report agencies (CRAs)…
Status Check: National Data Security Bill Likelihood of Passage
Will Congress pass a national data security bill after the massive federal employee data breach. Odds are not high. There is a higher liklihood that next week there will be a new food trailer opening in Austin.
What does this mean? States will pass stronger data security bills from everything from retailers to public education contractors to health care data.
3rd Smallest State Passes Data Breach Reform Legislation
Connecticut passed new data breach laws that will:
- require businesses to notify affected person within 90 days of the breach
- Require businesses to provide 1 year of identity-theft protection if their Social Security number is compromised
CT SB 949
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Small businesses are not pleased with a data security proposal by House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee Chairman Randy Neugebauer(R-Texas) and fellow Financial Services Committee member Rep. John Carney (D-Del.). National Retailers Federation response: “Congress should take concrete steps to make sure the credit card cartel finally does the right thing and makes its cards secure.”
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Retailers scuttled the $19 million settlement with mastercard issuers over the Target data breach. This keeps Mastercard in the class action lawsuit. Imposing Banking Data Security Requirements on Small Business. Overregulation?
Retailers Block Data Breach Settlement