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Apple Device Users Can File Claims in $95 Million Siri Spying Settlement
Apple earlier this year agreed to a $95 settlement to end a lawsuit filed in 2021 that claimed the company's AI-powered assistant Siri recorded users' conversations even when it wasn't prompted to ...
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Best of 2024: National Public Data Sued for Hack that Exposed Data of 2.9 Billion People
National Public Data, a background check company that collects sensitive personal information, is facing a class-action legal complaint for allowing the data from 2.9 billion people to be stolen in a breach ...
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National Public Data Sued for Hack that Exposed Data of 2.9 Billion People
National Public Data, a background check company that collects sensitive personal information, is facing a class-action legal complaint for allowing the data from 2.9 billion people to be stolen in a breach ...
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Revealed: Facebook’s “Incredibly Aggressive” Alleged Theft of Snapchat App Data
Richi Jennings | | Brian J. Dunne, class action, class action lawsuit, DeleteFacebook, facebook, facebook fine, free vpn app, Ghostbusters, IAPP, Man In The Middle, man in the middle attack, man in the middle attacks, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, mitm, MitM Attack, mitm attacks, mitm tool, mitm tools, Onavo, Onavo VPN, SB Blogwatch, Snapchat, SSL Bump, VPN
Meta MITM IAAP SSL bump: Zuck ordered “Project Ghostbusters”—with criminal consequences, says class action lawsuit ...
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Morgan Stanley Receives $60 Million Fine for Improper Handling of Customer Data
Alina Bizga | | class action lawsuit, Data breach, data mishandling, Digital Privacy, Industry News, Morgan Stanley, OCC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Morgan Stanley investment bank must pay a whopping $60 million fine for failing to properly decommission multiple business data centers that stored sensitive customer information, the Office of the Comptroller of the ...

The High Cost of Reporting a Non-Reportable Data Breach
Can a company be sued for reporting a data breach in which the data was never used and destroyed? In May, cloud provider Blackbaud was the victim of a ransomware attack designed ...
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Data Breach Litigation Waivers: Be Careful What You Wish For
Companies with data breach litigation waivers may find those waivers used against them by savvy law firms In her 1969 book, “On Death and Dying,” Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described the five stages of ...
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Equifax used ‘admin’ as username and password internally
Filip Truta | | admin, class action, class action lawsuit, Equifax, Equifax breach, equifax incident, Industry News
A class-action lawsuit targeting Equifax has revealed a series of appalling internal security practices that led to the data breach incurred by the credit reporting agency in 2017. The lawsuit is not ...

Supreme Court May Decide Data Breach Victims’ Rights
Mark Rasch | | CareFirst data breach, class action lawsuit, court, Data breach, lawsuit, Privacy, U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may decide whether you can act on that “Dear valued customer, we regret to inform you that your data may have been compromised …” letter or e-mail with ...