In what is the latest example of the potential cybersecurity-related liability of corporate boards, a shareholder for Wyndham Worldwide Corporation has initiated a derivative lawsuit against certain directors and officers of the company, as well as against the company itself as nominal defendant, related to the three data breaches the company the company and its
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District Court Upholds FTC’s Authority to Bring Data Breach Enforcement Action
By Kevin LaCroix on
Posted in Cyber Liability
It is a dangerous world out there. Among many other things, companies and other organizations are increasingly vulnerable to data security attacks from would-be hackers. Indeed, an April 8, 2014 New York Times article entitled “Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines” (here) notes that “companies scrambling to seal up their systems from …