Brianna Soltys and Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs write that the the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which had consolidated all federal lawsuits against Blackbaud in the District of South Carolina, has rejected plaintiffs’ motion to require Blackbaud to issue a corrective notice. As a brief reminder: Blackbaud provides third-party services for entities…
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UK watchdog’s punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private
Gareth Corfield reports: Blackbaud was given a private slap on the wrist by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after paying off criminals who stole users’ financial data from the cloud CRM biz’s servers. The astonishingly mild sanction was revealed in a Freedom-of-Information response after senior data protection specialist Jon Baines at London law firm Mishcon de Reya asked…
Customers Can Pursue Negligence Claims Directly Against Vendor (Blackbaud)
David Kessler and Susan Ross write: On October 19, 2021, a federal trial court in South Carolina ruled that a group of consumers could proceed with common law negligence and gross negligence claims directly against their organizations’ vendor that had been the victim of a security breach—instead of suing the organizations of which they were…
Northern Light Health reports data breach linked to Blackbaud incident
We are still first learning about Blackbaud clients impacted by their ransomware attack more than one year ago. We knew about some of the following, but not all. WGME reports: A Maine hospital says some patient information may have been stolen by hackers. Northern Light Health says information from its fundraising arm was also exposed….
Suspect File updates the Blackbaud incident tally for the education sector
Courtesy of Suspect File, this update to the list of educational entities impacted by the 2020 Blackbaud ransomware incident: UPDATE (5) of 31.07.2021 (June / July 2021) Total number of people involved 7,984,697 (+5,907) In the update of 07/31/2021, 3 new Institutions affected by the Blackbaud Data Breach are added. As of 30.05 2021, the…
Blackbaud must face data breach claims over 2020 ransomware attack
Sara Merken reports: (Reuters) – A South Carolina federal judge is allowing multidistrict data breach litigation against software company Blackbaud Inc to go forward, finding the plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged standing to keep the case on track. The Thursday decision from U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs in Columbia comes in litigation against Charleston-based Blackbaud, which was…