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Defending Against Director & Officer Litigation

One form of ancillary litigation that has arisen out of data breaches is shareholder derivative lawsuits against companies that suffer a data breach. In one recent case, Palkon v. Holmes, No. 2:14-cv-01234-SRC-CLW (D.N.J. Oct. 20, 2014), a court dismissed such a shareholder derivative action. The claims arose out of a series of data breaches against the Wyndham Worldwide hotel chain....