SEC Accuses Four Firms of Downplaying SolarWinds-Related Hacks October 23, 2024 By Nicola M. White Four hacked companies will pay a total of almost $7 million to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that...
Texas Reaches $3.5M Settlement With Marriott Over Customer Data Breach October 21, 2024 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the state has secured a settlement with Marriott International, Inc., that resolves an investigation...
Marriott Settles With States for $52M Over 2018 Data Breach at Starwood October 10, 2024 By Chad Hemenway Marriott International has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission and 50 state attorneys general over a series of...
AT&T Agrees to Pay $13 Million FCC Fine For Cloud Data Leak September 18, 2024 AT&T Inc. agreed to pay $13 million to settle an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission into whether the...
23andMe Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $30 Million September 16, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel 23andMe will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing...
Union Reports Cyber Incident May Have Exposed Members’ Private Information September 11, 2024 A Ridgefield Park, New Jersey-based labor union for longshoremen, healthcare, maintenance and other workers has reported a cyber incident that...
Payment Gateway Slim CD Notifies 1.7M Cardholders of Hack September 11, 2024 By Chad Hemenway Electronic-payment gateway Slim CD has notified customers that its systems were hacked starting more than a year ago, potentially exposing...
Officer Sentenced for Selling Crash Victim Information to Referral Service for Lawyers September 5, 2024 A former patrol officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was recently sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 months...
T-Mobile Fined $60 Million Over Unauthorized Data Access August 20, 2024 By Alexandra Alper and Eric Beech A powerful U.S. committee that scrutinizes foreign investment for national security risks fined T-Mobile $60 million, its largest penalty ever,...
Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos July 24, 2024 By Charles Gorrivan Hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT services providers to the US...