October 21, 2024
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the state has secured a settlement with Marriott International, Inc., that resolves an investigation into a breach of one of the company’s reservation databases. The breach exposed 131 million guest records pertaining to customers …
October 10, 2024
Marriott International has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission and 50 state attorneys general over a series of data breaches at a guest-reservation system subsidiary. According to multiple statements from the states, Marriott will pay $52 million to …
September 18, 2024
AT&T Inc. agreed to pay $13 million to settle an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission into whether the telecommunications company failed to protect customer data that was stolen when a cloud vendor was hacked last year. The unnamed …
September 16, 2024
23andMe will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million customers whose personal information was exposed in a data breach …
September 11, 2024
A Ridgefield Park, New Jersey-based labor union for longshoremen, healthcare, maintenance and other workers has reported a cyber incident that may have exposed some members’ private information. The office for Local 1964, International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1964 ILA Health & …
September 11, 2024
Electronic-payment gateway Slim CD has notified customers that its systems were hacked starting more than a year ago, potentially exposing the names, addresses, and credit card information of nearly 1.7 million individuals. The Coral Springs, Florida-based company that handles credit …
September 5, 2024
A former patrol officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was recently sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme in which he unlawfully provided non-public police information in exchange for …
August 20, 2024
A powerful U.S. committee that scrutinizes foreign investment for national security risks fined T-Mobile $60 million, its largest penalty ever, for failing to prevent and report unauthorized access to sensitive data, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The penalty imposed …
July 24, 2024
Hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT services providers to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter. Leidos recently learned of the issue and believes the documents were …
July 12, 2024
AT&T said Friday the company suffered a massive hacking incident as data from about 109 million customer accounts containing records of calls and texts from 2022 was illegally downloaded in April. The U.S. telecom company said the FBI is investigating …