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Technology,
Civil Litigation

Sep. 27, 2021

Companies vulnerable to data breaches are now vulnerable to litigation

Recent court cases are testing the liability of companies and their directors for data breaches suffered by their vendors or service providers.

Peter S. Selvin

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Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP

Phone: (310) 281-6384

Email: steve@newsroompr.com

Chair of Insurance Coverage and Recovery Department

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Data breaches by large companies have been in the news for some time. Over the last several years several companies, including Marriott, Yahoo and Volkswagen, have been victimized by hackers who have broken into a company's computer network. In some cases, the hackers have put the company's confidential information on the internet. In other cases, the hackers have held the company's information hostage through ransomware.

While companies ar...

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