Practical Tips for In-House Counsel Anticipating Cyber Class Actions

With the sudden and dramatic shift to remote work from the pandemic that in large part continues today, data breaches and cyber-attacks have substantially increased. These attacks prevail across all industries, targeting sensitive data and ransomware payments, from hospitals to technology companies to top law firms and even small businesses. As a fallout of data breaches in particular, the personal data of clients or employees is often compromised, and data breach class actions ensue. In fact, within a few hours of organizations disclosing a data breach, class actions are often already being filed.