If you aren’t losing sleep over malicious phishing schemes and other cybercrimes, you should be. According to the FBI, one type of cybercrime in particular—Business Email Compromise or BEC—cost businesses more than $26 billion over only three years. And, to bring the point closer to home, according to State Bar […]
As we’ve discussed at some length, privacy and data security laws create significant litigation risk for businesses. Individuals, other businesses, and federal and state regulators can and do sue when they believe a business violates these laws. Those same laws can also create risk in the conduct of litigation, even […]
Around this time last year, we discussed a proposal by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican state representative Jason Saine to overhaul North Carolina’s data-breach law. That proposal didn’t get much traction: no bill was ever formally presented to the legislature for consideration. On January 17, Attorney General […]
We talk a lot on this blog about data-breach lawsuits that arise from breaches in which a hacker targeted and stole personal information from a business. Also common, though, are situations in which a business fails to secure data, but then discovers and corrects the issue before hackers steal anything. […]