Matters
- Served as breach response and regulatory counsel in connection with hundreds of ransomware and cyber-extortion matters.
- Served as privacy counsel in connection with M&A deals, assisting clients in analyzing the risk associated with purchasing or investing in entities in light of ongoing or recent data security incidents and privacy compliance issues.
- Served as breach response and regulatory counsel for numerous financial institutions investigating and responding to ATM skimmer incidents.
- Served as breach response and investigation counsel for entities investigating and responding to suspected insider threat incidents.
- Served as breach response counsel for numerous e-commerce retailers investigating website and payment card information compromises and responding to inquiries from regulators and payment card brands.
- Served as class action defense counsel for entities involved in litigation arising from data incidents.
- Served as breach response and litigation counsel for financial institution that lost backup tapes containing account information of approximately two million customers.
- Served as breach response counsel for health care system that experienced a malware attack potentially impacting approximately four million customers and 40,000 employees.
- Served as breach response counsel to university following a brute-force password attack, compromising the personal information of over 60,000 students, alumni and employees residing in more than forty states and multiple foreign countries.
- Served as breach response counsel for an e-commerce hosting services provider that sustained a malware attack impacting hundreds of third-party companies that used client’s hosting services, as well as thousands of those companies’ customers.
- Served as breach response counsel for health care system in connection with potential exposure of radiological records of approximately 400,000 patients.
- Served as breach response counsel and law enforcement liaison for a national restaurant chain in connection with possible insider theft of payroll records.
- Served as breach response counsel for health care provider, investigating whether patient information was stolen as part of an identity theft ring focused on illegally acquiring prescription medication.
- Advised client regarding internationally discussed device vulnerabilities that led to a security incident, state and federal regulatory investigations, and multiple class action lawsuits. Polsinelli provided counsel regarding all separate matters, including device security, incident response, response to regulator inquiries, and representation in litigation.
- Assisted an art dealer in connection with a wire fraud incident related to the purchase of a multimillion-dollar piece of art.
- Counseled a multinational company notified by a security researcher that credentials to its AWS environment were available on a publicly facing server containing millions of records.
