As readers of this blog know, data breach, cyber, and privacy-related issues have become a new important area of securities class action litigation in the U.S. In the following guest post, Andrew Miers, Jason Symons, and Shonagh Rasmussen of the HWL Ebsworth law firm review the possibilities or this type of securities lawsuit in Australia. I would like to thank the authors for allowing me to publish their article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this site’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is the authors’ guest post.
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The newly disclosed $80 million settlement of the Yahoo data breach-related securities class action lawsuit will not make the list of the Top 100 securities suit settlements, but it is significant in its own way just the same. Because the settlement is the first substantial data breach-related shareholder lawsuit recovery, it represents a milestone development in a number of respects, as discussed below. The parties’ March 2, 2018 Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement can be found here.
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homedepotAfter claimants filed shareholders’ data breach-related derivative suits against the boards of Target (here) and Wyndham Worldwide (here), a number of commentators (including me) asked whether we could see a wave of cybersecurity related D&O lawsuits. Interestingly, since these two lawsuits were filed more than a year ago, there have been

hollywoodAs I noted in my recent rundown of the top D&O stories of 2014, one of the most important developments during the year just finished was the emergence of cyber security as a D&O liability concern. During 2014, plaintiff shareholders launched cyber breach-related derivative lawsuits against the boards of Target and Wyndham (about which refer