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Connecticut Fines Health Net $375,000 for Data Breach

Hunton Privacy

On November 8, 2010, Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan announced that Health Net of Connecticut, Inc. (“Health Net”) had agreed to pay $375,000 in penalties for failing to safeguard the personal information of its members from misuse by third parties.

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Connecticut AG Files First HITECH Act Suit

Hunton Privacy

The case marks the first action by a state attorney general under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act to enforce provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). Health Net did not begin notifying affected individuals until November 2009.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

This trend will evince itself in many forms: We’ll see massive older companies shift their marketing focus to purpose-based messaging – both to insure top talent considers them as a career choice, and to maintain relevance to a new generation of purpose-based consumers. So let’s get to it.

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DOS and DON’TS of a 30(b)(6) Witness Deposition, Part Six

eDiscovery Daily

Perhaps the most comprehensive decision on depositions of corporate defendants under Rule 30(b)(6) is QBE Insurance Corporation v. Ecclesiastes 9:10–11–12, Inc. Further, the corporation must produce as many deponents as is necessary to respond to the areas of inquiry set out in the deposition notice. Jordan Enterprises, 277 F.R.D.

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MY TAKE: A primer on how ransomware arose to the become an enduring scourge

The Last Watchdog

insurance giant Beazley Worldwide reported that the average ransomware demand in 2018 was more than $116,000, a figure admittedly skewed by some very large demands. And fully 91% of poll takers said their clients had been hit by ransomware in the past 12 months, with 40% reporting more than six separate attacks during the past year.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5 Founded in 2009, a16z already has an extensive track record of success, investing in over 500 companies and producing 160 exits. Formerly located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Greylock migrated headquarters to Menlo Park, California, in 2009.