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British Airways has settled the not-quite-a-class-action* lawsuit against it, potentially paying millions of pounds to make the data breach case in the High Court of England and Wales go away. "The resolution includes provision for compensation for qualifying claimants who were part of the litigation. The resolution does not include any admission of liability by British Airways Plc," said PGMBM. The lawsuit was based on the 2018 BA data breach, where the credit card details of 380,000 people were stolen thanks to a Magecart infection on its payment processing pages.
US House Rep Mo Brooks seemingly revealed his Gmail password and a PIN in a Sunday rage tweet about a lawsuit regarding the January 6 insurrection attempt. Brooks, who sits on the House's Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems subcommittee, and the Science, Space, and Technology committee, tweeted a photo from an iPad of his Windows computer, attached to which was a piece of paper with login credentials written on it.
Google has urged the UK's Supreme Court to throw out a £3bn lawsuit brought by an ex-Which director over secretly planted tracking cookies on devices running Safari, on the grounds that local law doesn't allow for opt-out class action lawsuits. The case, being heard over two days this week in the Supreme Court, the final court of appeal in Britain for civil cases, has huge implications for legal businesses and investors as well as data protection law.
Netizens who say Google continued to track them around the web even when using Chrome's incognito mode can proceed with their privacy lawsuit against the internet giant, a judge has ruled. Specifically, the judge denied Google's motion to dismiss the class-action-seeking lawsuit, stating: "The court concludes that Google did not notify users that Google engages in the alleged data collection while the user is in private browsing mode."
A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. U.S. District Judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illlinois in 2015.
A class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of SolarWinds investors this week over the cybersecurity breach suffered by the Texas-based IT management solutions provider. The complaint names SolarWinds, as well as Kevin Thompson, who served as the company's CEO until just days before the incident was disclosed, and Barton Kalsu, executive VP and CFO of SolarWinds.
Black man sues police, saying he was falsely ID'd by facial recognition, joining other Black Americans falling victim to the technology's racial bias. Racial bias against non-white skin in facial recognition landed Nijeer Parks ten days in jail in 2019 after the technology falsely identified him as a shoplifting suspect, a new lawsuit says.
Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub, Google, LinkedIn, VMware and the Internet Association have filed an amicus brief in support of WhatsApp in the legal case against the NSO Group. Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp filed the lawsuit in October 2019 in California, accusing Israeli technology firm NSO Group of spying on journalists, human rights activists and others.
The DontTouchTheGreenButton.com website just launched by the Trump campaign in relation to the recently filed Arizona "Rejected votes" lawsuit was discovered to be leaking voter data. The data included the voter name, address, and a unique identifier.
Leading cloud software provider Blackbaud has been sued in 23 proposed consumer class action cases in the U.S. and Canada related to the ransomware attack that the company suffered in May 2020. The organizations impacted by the ransomware attack on Blackbaud include a long list of entities such as charities, non-profits, foundations, and universities from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands.