Perspective
Sep. 29, 2016
Data breach burdens are are becoming overly harsh
Until recently, data breach cases rarely survived motions to dismiss or demurrers because plaintiffs could not allege a compensable injury. By Andres Hurwitz and Edward Ho
Andres Hurwitz
Partner
Andres is a litigator with a specialty in privacy issues and the leader of the firm's Data Security & Privacy Team. He is a certified information privacy professional.
Yahoo recently confirmed a data breach that could impact some 500 million users. It joins a large group of hacked entities, including Target, LinkedIn, Dropbox, UCLA and Hillary Clinton. Of course, the entities themselves are not the only victims; data breaches affect all individuals with information they assumed was safe with the hacked entities. And with these individual victims come lawsuits - lots and lots of ...
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