Angelo A. Stio III, Jan Levine and William Gibson Published in New Jersey Lawyer, 'Standing and the Emerging Law of Data Breach Class Actions'
Pepper partners Angelo A. Stio III and Jan P. Levine and Pepper associate William Gibson published the article, "Standing and the Emerging Law of Data Breach Class Actions" in the April 2015 edition of the New Jersey Lawyer, the magazine of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
In the last few years, cybersecurity has been at the forefront of media coverage. Stories of data breaches at Target, Home Depot, Wyndham Worldwide, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Anthem, to name a few, have heightened the public's awareness of cybersecurity and focused society on a corporation's obligations to draft and implement comprehensive polices and procedures for keeping personal information secure and responding when that information is compromised. Indeed, the consequences of not implementing comprehensive polices and procedures and a response plan are significant. Corporations that fail to address cybersecurity run the risk of reputational harm, loss of intellectual property, exposure to regulatory actions, civil litigation and loss of time and resources. This article focuses on the recent wave of class actions that have arisen when a data breach occurs, and addresses the primary hurdle to these claims.
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