Monumental Win in Data Breach Class Action: A Case Study In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by Partners Ron Raether and Tim St George to discuss a landmark victory in a major data breach class action multidistrict litigation The team delves into the details of the successful defense of an attempt at class certification involving a ransomware attack on software provider Blackbaud
Largest Data Breaches in The World [Updated 2024] In February 2019, the cybersecurity world was rocked by one of the largest and most unique data breaches in history, involving the email validation service, Verifications io This breach was notable not for the exposure of passwords or sensitive financial information, but for leaking an enormous trove of over 763 million unique email addresses
Ministry of Defence Data Breach: What Happened? - Barings Law The payroll provider for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been breached by a large-scale cyber-attack, with armed forces staff members’ data accessed The hackers are believed to have been present in the system of the Ministry’s third-party contractor, Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL), for several weeks rather than a matter of days, as was originally thought
“The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found online [Updated] Security researchers have discovered billions of exposed records online, calling it the “mother of all breaches” However, the dataset doesn’t seem to be from one single data breach, but more a compilation of multiple breaches