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Sep. 16, 2014

The naked truth: little recourse for cloud-based security breaches

While you may not take nude "selfies," you likely (and sometimes unknowingly) store copious amounts of personal information on online servers.

Brian S. Kabateck

Founding and Managing Partner
Kabateck LLP

Consumer rights

633 W. Fifth Street Suite 3200
Los Angeles , CA 90071

Phone: 213-217-5000

Email: bsk@kbklawyers.com

Brian represents plaintiffs in personal injury, mass torts litigation, class actions, insurance bad faith, insurance litigation and commercial contingency litigation. He is a former president of Consumer Attorneys of California.

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Shant A. Karnikian

Managing Partner and Trial Attorney
Kabateck LLP

Phone: (213) 217-5000

Email: sk@kbklawyers.com

Loyola Law School

Shant A. Karnikian is a Managing Partner and trial attorney with Kabateck LLP. His practice focuses on insurance bad faith, catastrophic personal injury, and consumer class actions.

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While you may not take nude "selfies," you likely (and sometimes unknowingly) store copious amounts of personal information on online servers, such as iCloud, Dropbox or simply your email. Despite consumers' expectations and efforts to keep their data private, providers often store sensitive data in the billowing, less-than-secure cloud. On Aug. 31, we were once again reminded of this troubling reality after a cache of nude celebrity photos were uploaded onto websites like 4Chan and Redd...

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