You probably remember the massive data breach that Sony Entertainment suffered back in April 2011 in its video game online network which exposed the personal information of approximately 77 million […]

On May 21st, eBay announced that it had experienced a data breach that had potentially affected all 145 million of its users.  In addition to the shock wave of bad […]

The hits just keep on coming for these two companies in the courts.  On May 2nd, Wyndham shareholders filed a derivative action in New Jersey, alleging that Wyndham’s Board of […]

Just three weeks prior to Los Angeles hosting HITEC 2015, the hospitality industry’s largest technology conference, the local ABC news affiliate reports on the lack of awareness around PCI Compliance […]

Yesterday, while banging around some golf balls at Pinehurst (pardon me while I name drop!) the guy next to me on the driving range joked with his buddy that the […]

Wyndham Worldwide is learning the hard way that the consequences of allegedly not taking adequate steps to prevent data breaches aren’t limited to customer complaints and government penalties.  In the […]

On April 17th, Wyndham Worldwide Corp. filed a motion in a New Jersey federal court arguing that the court’s April 7th rejection of the hotelier’s motion to dismiss in the […]

Speaking to a packed room of data privacy and corporate in-house attorneys at the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s Annual Conference last week, Laura Berger, an attorney in the […]

On March 25th, Senator John D. Rockefeller released a report entitled, “A ‘Kill Chain’ Analysis of the 2013 Target Data Breach,” which found that Target Corp. failed to act on […]

The protection of consumers’ financial information is a hot topic on the Hill these days.  Earlier this month, Congress held a hearing on, “Data Security: Examining Efforts to Protect Americans’ […]