King & Spalding Client Alert: Target and Neiman Marcus Face Government Probes and Litigation

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Privacy and Information Security Practice Group

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Target and Neiman Marcus Face Government Probes and Litigation as a Result of Holiday-season Cyberattacks

The massive holiday hacking of consumer information belonging to Target and Neiman Marcus customers has the impacted retailers under a microscope. State Attorneys General across the country have banded together to launch a “national investigation” into the data breaches that, in the case of Target, impacted approximately 70 million customers. The U.S. Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security are conducting their own investigations and have partnered with private-sector executives to identify the perpetrators, most recently believed to be teenage Russian cyberthieves.

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Barry Goheen http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091A54688E9B433E45
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