NSO Group to Pay Nearly $168M to Meta’s WhatsApp for 2019 Hacking May 7, 2025 By Chad Hemenway A federal jury in California has ordered Israeli firm NSO Group to pay more than $167 million in punitive damages...
Utah Insurance Department Warns of Phony Policies Sold on Social Media April 11, 2025 The Utah Insurance Department’s Fraud Division is warning consumers about an increase in fake auto insurance policies being marketed to...
FTC, Meta Face April Trial Over Suit to Break Up Company November 26, 2024 Meta Platforms Inc. faces an April 14 trial in the Federal Trade Commission’s long-running antitrust lawsuit to break up the...
SEC’s WhatsApp Probe Expands as Rating Agencies Hit With Fines September 4, 2024 By Lydia Beyoud Moody’s Corp., S&P Global Inc. and Fitch Ratings Inc. will pay a combined $48 million over allegations that the credit-rating...
SEC Hits More Wall Street Firms With $81M in Fines Over Record-Keeping February 12, 2024 By Chris Prentice A new group of Wall Street firms has agreed to pay more than $81 million in civil penalties to settle...
Meta’s WhatsApp Fined 5.5M Euro by Lead EU Privacy Regulator January 19, 2023 By Padraic Halpin Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros ($5.95 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), its lead...
Meta Could Face Hefty Fine as EU Probe Into Massive Data Leak Draws to Close October 5, 2022 By Stephanie Bodoni Meta Platforms Inc. could face a hefty fine as a probe by a key European Union privacy watchdog into the...
Russia Court Finds Meta Guilty of ‘Extremist Activity’; Ruling Will Not Affect WhatsApp March 22, 2022 A Moscow court said on Monday that Meta was guilty of “extremist activity,” but the ruling will not affect its...
US Court Rejects Israeli Firm’s Immunity From Facebook Suit Over Malware November 9, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its...
Whistleblower Tells Congress Facebook Puts Profits Over Safety, Urges Regulation October 5, 2021 By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to regulate the social media giant,...