Following up on the FTC’s February 1 announcement about its enforcement action against GoodRx, the Department of Justice announced yesterday: The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced today that the government has resolved allegations that GoodRx Holdings Inc., doing business as GoodRx Gold, GoodRx Care, and Hey Doctor (GoodRx), violated…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Trove of L.A. Students’ Mental Health Records Posted to Dark Web After Cyber Hack
Mark Keierleber reports: Detailed and highly sensitive mental health records of hundreds — and likely thousands — of former Los Angeles students were published online after the city’s school district fell victim to a massive ransomware attack last year, an investigation by The 74 has revealed. The student psychological evaluations, published to a “dark web”…
National Credit Union Administration Finalizes 72-Hour Cyber Incident Reporting Rule
Alexander Boyd and Colin H. Black of Polsinelli PC write: On February 16, 2023, the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA”) unanimously approved a final rule that requires a federally-insured credit union to report “reportable cyber incidents” to the NCUA as soon as possible, and in no event later than 72 hours after the credit union…
Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration
The following is a guest article by John Gaede, Director of Information Systems at Sky Lakes Medical Center that appeared on Healthcare IT Today. Imagine a rural business is the victim of a cyberattack. A nefarious person or group convinces an unsuspecting employee to open an email promising a bonus. Within 12 hours, every piece of technology…
UK: Meta successfully resists certification in data privacy collective action
Jennifer Reeves, Simon Day, and Cameron Firth of MacFarlanes write: In an early victory for Meta, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has refused to certify a collective claim brought on behalf of some 45 million consumers by proposed class representative Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen (the “PCR”). Less than three weeks after the certification hearing, the Tribunal…
Thoughts on Dubin v. United States and the Aggravated Identity Theft Statute
Law professor Orin Kerr writes: On February 27, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Dubin v. United States, a case on the Aggravated Identity Theft Statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A. This statute comes up often in the context of computer crimes, and its interpretation raises some interesting and important questions. So I thought I would blog…