{"id":38009,"date":"2025-03-13T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38009"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:16:47","slug":"limits-on-data-breach-class-action-lawsuits-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38009","title":{"rendered":"Limits on data-breach class action lawsuits passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers approved a bill March 13 that prevents a private entity from being liable in a class action resulting from a cybersecurity event in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37087\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37087\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenHallstrom_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Bob Hallstrom, District 1. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729274877&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;142&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenHallstrom_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bob Hallstrom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bob Hallstrom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenHallstrom_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37087\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenHallstrom_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Bob Hallstrom\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Bob Hallstrom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB241, introduced by Syracuse Sen. Bob Hallstrom, private entities that experience a data breach are not liable in a class action unless the cybersecurity event was caused by the entity\u2019s \u201cwillful, wanton or gross negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill defines a cybersecurity event as one that leads to unauthorized access to, disruption or misuse of nonpublic information, such as Social Security or driver\u2019s license numbers or financial account information, security codes or passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying private entities under the bill include corporations, religious or charitable organizations, associations, businesses and nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p>LB241 passed on a vote of 36-10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers approved a bill March 13 that prevents a private entity from being liable in a class action resulting from a cybersecurity event in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[298],"class_list":["post-38009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-bob-hallstrom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39337,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38009\/revisions\/39337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}