Does Your Company or Law Firm Have a Plan on How to Respond to Data Breaches?

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Popular retail giant, Home Depot, Inc. (“Home Depot”), fell victim to the latest round of cybersecurity attacks with experts fearing that more than 40 million payment cards might have been compromised.  If confirmed, this number would make Home Depot’s breach more disastrous than the attack that befell Target Corporation last year. 

The breach came to public light on September 2, 2014 and by September 4th, a class action lawsuit had already been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  In the lawsuit, the complainants allege that Home Depot failed to protect their payment and personal information in addition to timely warning them that such information had been compromised.    

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