Security News

Altaba Settles Yahoo Breach Lawsuits for $47 Million
2018-09-18 05:08

Altaba, the investment company that resulted from Verizon’s $4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s Internet business last year, has agreed to settle consumer class action lawsuits triggered by the...

British Airways Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach
2018-09-10 12:18

GDPR Privacy Law Lets Breach Victims Seek 'Non-Material Damage' CompensationBritish Airways has been threatened with a class-action lawsuit in U.K. court after warning that a hacker stole payment...

Lawsuit Lays Bare Israel-made Hack Tools in Mideast, Mexico
2018-09-04 12:06

PARIS (AP) — One day late last year, Qatari newspaper editor Abdullah Al-Athbah came home, removed the SIM card from his iPhone 7 and smashed it to pieces with a hammer. read more

Destroyed Computer Hampers Lawsuit In Premera Breach
2018-09-04 11:33

Developer's Computer, A23567-D, Was Tagged End Of Life And DestroyedPlaintiffs in a class action suit against Premera Blue Cross allege the company willfully destroyed a computer that may have...

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Location Tracking
2018-08-21 17:03

Tech Giant Clarifies: Pausing 'Location History' Alone Won't Stop All TrackingA lawsuit accuses Google of "the surreptitious location tracking of millions of mobile phone users." The legal action...

Social media rumors lead to PepsiCo lawsuit
2018-07-30 12:26

...so take down those 3,412 Facebook links, 20,244 Facebook posts, 242 YouTube videos, 6 Instagram links, and 562 tweets ... by court order.

Proposed Settlement in Lawsuit Tied to Insider Breach
2018-07-25 19:03

Are Class Action Suits Stemming From Insider Breaches Easier for Plaintiffs to Win?A proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit against an Alabama hospital provides a total of up to $150,000 in...

Ruling Reaffirms Individuals Cannot File HIPAA Lawsuits
2018-06-22 19:03

Federal Court Dismisses Legal Action by Patient in Privacy CaseA federal court recently dismissed a case filed by a patient alleging a laboratory violated HIPAA by failing to shield her personal...

Lawsuit Filed in Wake of Under Armour Data Breach
2018-06-01 20:03

Company Asks Court to Compel ArbitrationA lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the aftermath of a data breach impacting 150 million users of Under Armour's MyFitnessPal mobile...

ICANN Launches GDPR Lawsuit to Clarify the Future of WHOIS
2018-05-31 21:36

WHOIS, the searchable "phonebook" of contact data for internet domains, may violate GDPR -- or it may not. A lawsuit seeks to find out which it is.