In early August, the City of Atlanta reported that the costs associated with its SamSam ransomware infection could reach $17 million, and the FBI has estimated the number of ransomware attacks may be as high as 4,000 per day. To help address the complex issue of when organizations
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Clara Y. Kim
Ms. Kim is an associate in Davis Polk's Litigation Department. [Full Bio]
Still Standing, Part 2 – Plaintiffs Continue to Rack Up Victories in Data Breach Class Actions, and New Laws Are Coming That May Help Both Sides
By Avi Gesser, Clara Y. Kim & Mengyi Xu on
In February, we wrote about how the road for plaintiffs in cyber breach class actions may be getting smoother. Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court has continued to avoid the issue of standing in data breach cases (declining to take up the issue in CareFirst, Inc. v. Attias…
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