Krispy Kreme Starts Notifying Over 160,000 People Affected by Data Breach June 19, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Krispy Kreme released new information about its late 2024 data breach and said it is notifying affected individuals—many of them...
New England Patriots to Pay $2.1 Million to Settle App Users’ Privacy Claims June 2, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson A federal district court judge in Boston has granted preliminary approval to a $2.16 million settlement between the New England...
23andMe Bankruptcy Bid Deadline Extended as DNA Privacy Woes Linger April 29, 2025 By Steven Church The sale of the bankrupt DNA data bank 23andMe is facing delays as the company tries to find a lead...
MGM Resorts to Pay $45M to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit January 29, 2025 MGM Resorts International has agreed to a $45 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over its data breaches in...
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...
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...
Hacker Says AT&T Paid About $400,000 to Erase Sensitive Data July 15, 2024 A hacker who claims to have stolen sensitive call and text logs from AT&T Inc. said they were paid about...
Fort Myers Life Insurance Broker Charged With Policy Fraud, Misusing ID Info June 4, 2024 Florida financial regulators have charged a Fort Myers insurance broker with taking out a life insurance policy on a person...
Hacking Group Claims It Stole Client Data From Christie’s May 29, 2024 By James Tarmy and Jake Bleiberg After a cyberattack on Christie’s auction house earlier this month, a hacker group called RansomHub claimed responsibility. In a post...
Boston Agent Charged With Creating Fake Insurance Policies to Collect Commissions April 26, 2024 A Boston man has been charged with a fraud scheme in which prosecutors say he collected about $45,000 in unearned...