What You Can Learn about Vendor Management from the DocuSign Breach
While some industries may get away with the "trust but verify" model, heavily regulated industries such as financial services have no such luxury. Trust no one-you can't afford to.
Last week, DocuSign, one of the most frequently used electronic signing services, reported a data breach involving phishing emails being sent to its customers. While inside the DocuSign system, criminals stole possibly more than 100 million emails to use as targets in a phishing email campaign. Wrong-doers sent emails to customers with ...
In Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson, No. 16-348 (May 15, 2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a debt collector does not run afoul of the FDCPA by filing a proof of claim in bankruptcy on a stale debt. In its 5-3 decision, the Court sided with the majority of the federal courts of appeals to have considered the issue and reversed the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which had held that filing a proof of claim on a debt for which the statute of limitations had expired amounted to a "false," "deceptive," "misleading," "unconscionable," and "unfair" means of debt collection.
The case arose ...