Potential Business Liability for Failure to Secure Consumer Data
In the first seven months of 2005, the personal information of more than 50 million individuals in the U.S. has been stolen by data thieves or lost by U.S. businesses. That's 10 times the number affected by data breaches in all of 2003, the last period for which comparable figures are available. DWT attorney Randy Gainer discusses the causes of the dramatic increase in the number of data breaches and the lawsuits that have been filed because of the data thefts in a recent article available here.
