Digital Mountain, Inc.

05/11/2026

AI just changed the game, again. Our Spring 2026 eNewsletter breaks down the impact of Claude Mythos for cybersecurity, who's leading the new AI power race, and why the law may struggle to keep up. What's the biggest AI risk keeping you up at night? Please share your comments.

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05/08/2026

Approximately 9,000 schools. 275 million users, finals week, and graduation right behind it - when suddenly the testing screens go dark from a ransomware attack.

The Canvas/Instructure hack by ShinyHunters couldn't have landed at a worse moment. Students mid-exam found their screens taken over by a ransom demand. Faculty can't enter grades. Course materials are inaccessible. Paying a ransom by the May 12 deadline may still not prevent a potential PII tsunami. Names, emails, student IDs, and private messages are threatened with compromise.

This wasn't random. Ed-tech platforms are high-value, under-secured targets. ShinyHunters knew exactly when they had maximum leverage. As Pink Floyd could have demanded, Hey, Hackers! Leave them kids alone!

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/us/canvas-hack-strands-college-students-finals-week

An apparent cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials – at a time when many are taking or prepping for final exams.

03/26/2026

Does a big case change your opinion on the future balance between human wisdom and AI-based document review? Tell us what you think.

On March 25, 2026, a California state court handed down a decision in K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms et al. The jury found that the plaintiff, a young woman who began consuming content on social media at an early age, was injured by the intentional design of content sharing platforms. While the defendants have already indicated their intention to appeal this decision, this decision is already rippling through the social media industry and legal communities alike.

To make the case that the defendants knew that features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, and notification systems were enhanced to create an addictive product, they needed to connect the dots that the defendants not only knew the potential to cause harm, but also that the defendants deliberately used those addictive elements to increase users’ time on the platforms. Similar in philosophy to cases against the major to***co companies in the 1990s, in which four major to***co companies eventually agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, in addition to non-monetary remediation, this case and the to***co cases dovetail on the theory of, “You caused this problem, you need to clean it up.”

What strikes us as critical for this case is the necessary work done outside the courtroom by the plaintiff’s legal team. Finding the links between the science which established the addictive nature of the products and the intentional decisions that were made to increase the addictive nature of the products was crucial to the case. To link these elements together, the legal team would have needed to carefully craft their review strategy and painstakingly establish the connections between the available data in emails and messages, calendar items, development and updating of product functions, and dollars spent on platform enhancement.

There’s no doubt that this required an intense effort to cull a voluminous amount of data gathered during the Discovery phase. But it also required something else, the judgment and discernment to determine how each bit of relevant data fit into the overall picture as a link in the chain from mere knowledge to intentional decision. We see this as an important and masterful use of the relationship among attorneys, litigation support teams, and eDiscovery practitioners who no doubt helped with the curation of the relevant evidence, irrespective of whether AI-based tools were utilized. Today with data explosion and review at the speed of AI, we’re convinced that there will always be a place where human wisdom will prove invaluable.

01/26/2026

AI will transform eDiscovery and cybersecurity in 2026. In our Winter 2026 eNewsletter, we offer our technology and legal predictions for the upcoming year. What strikes you as the next viral trend for eDiscovery or cybersecurity?
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10/20/2025

Is Gen AI prompt preservation emerging as a critical digital evidence source? For this eNewsletter, we examine the changing Gen AI market, shine a spotlight on Gen AI chatbot prompt preservation, and take a look at some innovative case law covering Gen AI prompts in the courtroom.

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07/28/2025

Mystified by how ads you've looked at elsewhere end up in your social media feeds? For this eNewsletter, we demystify the Meta Pixel and other website event tracking codes, as well as take a close look at relevant court cases worth following.
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04/28/2025

Hyperlinked files and modern attachments can present real pain points in eDiscovery! In our latest eNewsletter, we discuss navigating and managing hyperlinked files and modern attachments in eDiscovery and digital forensics, as well as noteworthy opinions from the courts.
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01/21/2025

Our Winter 2025 eNewsletter discusses predictions on technology disruptors impacting the legal and cybersecurity sectors in 2025. We also address how deepfake strangers pose online dangers for organizations. https://digitalmountain.com/resources/newsletter/

12/23/2024

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