The sale of the bankrupt DNA data bank 23andMe is facing delays as the company tries to find a lead bidder that can quickly clear regulatory hurdles and guarantee customer privacy rules will be honored. The former Silicon Valley startup …
MGM Resorts International has agreed to a $45 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over its data breaches in 2019 and 2023. Preliminary approval of the settlement was granted by a federal judge, according to documents filed Jan. 22 …
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 …
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 …
A hacker who claims to have stolen sensitive call and text logs from AT&T Inc. said they were paid about $400,000 to erase the data trove. An analysis of a Bitcoin wallet address provided by the hacker shows a transaction …
Florida financial regulators have charged a Fort Myers insurance broker with taking out a life insurance policy on a person without their knowledge and misusing the person’s identification information. Bryce Corey Tyminski, 26, was arrested and booked into the Lee …
After a cyberattack on Christie’s auction house earlier this month, a hacker group called RansomHub claimed responsibility. In a post on the dark web Monday, RansomHub said that it had gained access to the personal information of the firm’s wealthy …
A Boston man has been charged with a fraud scheme in which prosecutors say he collected about $45,000 in unearned sales commissions on insurance policies he created using personally identifiable information stolen from individuals. The state attorney general’s office announced …
The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) will pay $300,000 for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited its website, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced. James said an investigation by her office found that the hospital used advertising tools on …
Okta Inc. has discovered that hackers who breached its network two months ago stole information on all users of its customer support system — a scope far greater than the 1% of customers the company had previously said were affected. …
