May 17, 2023 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
On May 9, the Department of Justice announced Joseph James O’Connor, a 23-year-old U.K. citizen, pleaded guilty in New York to his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter. O’Connor, aka...
Mar 21, 2023 | Cyber Law, False Claims Act
Chilivis Grubman attorneys warned that the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative would use the False Claims Act (FCA) to pursue cybersecurity-related fraud. The FCA prohibits any person from knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, a...
Jan 4, 2023 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
On December 14, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the federal agency that manages the Medicare program, posted a press release related to a data breach suffered by a CMS subcontractor. According to the notice, on October 8, 2022, a CMS...
