Security News

Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line
2025-05-21 15:35

CrowdStrike remains hopeful that damages will be limited to seven figures CrowdStrike is "confident" that the worst-case scenario of its pending lawsuit with Delta will result in it paying the...

Noyb Threatens Meta with Lawsuit for Violating GDPR to Train AI on E.U. User Data From May 27
2025-05-15 16:45

Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) has sent Meta's Irish headquarters a cease-and-desist letter, threatening the company with a class action lawsuit if it proceeds with its...

Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
2025-04-02 10:54

Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches.…

Coordinates of millions of smartphones feared stolen, sparking yet another lawsuit against data broker
2025-02-06 22:07

Fourth time’s the harm? Gravy Analytics has been sued yet again for allegedly failing to safeguard its vast stores of personal data, which are now feared stolen. And by personal data we mean...

Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M
2025-01-16 17:32

That's in addition to the $4.5M fine paid to three state AGs last year Enzo Biochem has settled a consolidated class-action lawsuit relating to its 2023 ransomware incident for $7.5 million.…

Apple offers to settle 'snooping Siri' lawsuit for an utterly incredible $95M
2025-01-02 21:15

Even the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that...

NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta's Lawsuit
2024-11-18 05:52

Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta's WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app...

23andMe settles class-action breach lawsuit for $30 million
2024-09-16 02:30

Also: Apple to end NSO Group lawsuit; Malicious Python dev job offers; Dark web kingpins busted; and more Infosec In Brief Genetic testing outfit 23andMe has settled a proposed class action case...

That cyber-heist of 2.9B personal records? There's a class-action lawsuit looming for that
2024-08-05 17:58

A lawsuit has accused a Florida data broker of carelessly failing to secure billions of records of people's private information, which was subsequently stolen from the biz and sold on an online criminal marketplace. California resident Christopher Hofmann filed the potential class-action complaint against Jerico Pictures, doing business as National Public Data, a Coral Springs-based firm that provides APIs so that companies can perform things like background checks on people and look up folks' criminal records.

Judge mostly drags SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin
2024-07-18 21:06

A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America's financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security practices and the backdooring of its Orion product. In a Thursday ruling [PDF], US federal district Judge Paul Engelmayer dismissed all of the so-called "Post-SUNBURST" claims the SEC levied against SolarWinds.