The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection released a study this month (March 2017) indicating that business entities could be doing more to stop malicious emails from hitting the inboxes of employees. The goal behind many malicious emails is to trick individuals into turning over either their own confidential ...
Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, LLP is sponsoring the Kentucky Chamber’s Cyber Security and Data Privacy seminar on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, at the Griffin Gate Marriott Resort in Lexington, Kentucky. We’ve put together a terrific panel of presenters, including, among others, representatives of Homeland Security and Crowdstrike, the firm ...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) entered into a settlement with Presence Health Network relating to its failure to provide timely notification of a breach of unsecured protected health information under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA). OCR data breach settlements ...
On July 29, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made the latest move in its battle with LabMD, Inc. (LabMD) when it reversed an initial decision by an administrative law judge (ALJ). The FTC determined that LabMD’s data security practices constitute an unfair act or practice within the meaning of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. ...
Kathie McDonald-McClure and Matt San Roman, members of Wyatt’s Data Privacy & Security Service Team, were recently interviewed for Corporate Counsel magazine. The article, “Tennessee Enacted the Toughest Data Breach Law Yet,” addresses the new amendment to the Tennessee Identity Theft Deterrence Act of 1999. The amendment, among ...