Daniel Richardson reports: Bill Evanina, former director of the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center, appeared as a guest on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, January 31, and gave a stark warning about data being used by China. During the programme, the former director suggested that Beijing is attempting to collect the medical data of Americans….
CT AG Tong Seeks Update To Data Breach Notifications
Attorney General William Tong testified last week before the General Law Committee in support of two pieces of legislation sought by the Office of the Attorney General to strengthen the state’s price gouging and data breach notification statutes. Data Breaches An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches, House Bill 5310, was sought by the Office of…
Lawmakers press NSA for answers about Juniper hack from 2015
Justin Katz reports: A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the National Security Agency to account for its part in the five-year-old breach of Juniper Networks, following a congressional investigation of the company last year. “The American people have a right to know why NSA did not act after the Juniper hack to protect…
Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
MaryClaire Dale of AP reports: Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he’ll have to print out any highly sensitive documents and hand-deliver…
Data of 300,000 customers leaked in São Paulo
Sofia Mandelert, Thamilla Talarico, Nuria López and Renato Gomes Malafaia of Daniel Law write: Following procedures contained in the LGPD (Brazil’s new data protection law), the international company Enel, with operations in Brazil, has started contacting its customers in relation to a data breach affecting the data of at least 300 thousand clients in the…
Court Holds Data Breach Notice Disclosing Potential Cyberattack Did Not Establish Plaintiffs’ Standing in Privacy Litigation
Christina Lamoureux of Squire Patton Boggs writes: While many federal courts have weighed in on the issue of what suffices for Article III standing in the context of a data breach litigation, not all state courts have. Last week, the Superior Court of Delaware found that a group of plaintiffs who received a notice that their personal…