forensic report;

On June 25, 2020, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld a Magistrate Judge’s order, compelling Capital One to produce the Mandiant Report at issue in the matter of In Re: Capital One Consumer Data Security Breach Litigation (See MDL No.1:19md2915).

The decision put to rest the month-long dispute over

As has been widely reported, a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia recently ordered Capital One to produce a forensic report prepared by the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, holding that the report was not protected as attorney work product despite having been prepared at the direction of outside counsel.  On June 9, 2020, Capital