GoodRx has reached a $25 million preliminary settlement of proposed class action litigation alleging the telehealth company violated privacy and an assortment of other laws and statutes when it previously collected and shared consumers' information with third parties through online tracking tools.
A U.S. federal appeals court ruled U.S. Department of Treasury exceeded its authority by sanctioning Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service used by North Korean hackers to launder more than $455 million. Smart contracts "are not capable of being owned," the court ruled.
A New York state court has approved a preliminary $1.5 million settlement of a consolidated proposed class action lawsuit against One Brooklyn Health System following a November 2022 cyberattack that involved theft of sensitive health data belonging to more than 235,000 people.
A federal court has finalized an $8 million settlement in a consolidated proposed class action lawsuit against law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe involving a hack that affected several clients and more than 638,000 individuals. It is one of several law firms facing similar data breach problems.
In its fraud case against SolarWinds, the SEC is pursuing testimony from former SolarWinds engineer Robert Krajcir - who lives in the Czech Republic - to address claims of lax cybersecurity practices. SolarWinds - which is also representing Krajcir - has until Friday to respond to the SEC's motion.
CrowdStrike has countersued customer Delta Air Lines, accusing the airline of employing a lawsuit and seeking damages in "a desperate attempt to shift blame" for Delta's own IT inadequacies having exacerbated its outage, unlike "other major airlines" that quickly resumed operations.
Delta Air Lines filed an acerbic lawsuit Friday afternoon against CrowdStrike that likens the endpoint security vendor's botched July 19 update to hacking. The suit accuses the cybersecurity company of "installing an exploit in Delta systems" by automatically rolling out an update.
A coalition of more than 60 AI industry players is pushing Congress to prioritize legislation that would codify the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. The letter says the action would allow U.S. to maintain influence in the development of science-backed standards for advanced AI systems.
Check Point and Mimecast will each pay regulators nearly $1 million to settle charges of making materially misleading disclosures related to the SolarWinds Orion hack. The SEC alleged public disclosures from Check Point and Mimecast didn't capture the severity of the compromise.
A Michigan-based dental practice with 250 centers across nine states has agreed to pay $2.7 million under a preliminary settlement of a proposed consolidated class action lawsuit centered on a 2023 hacking incident reported as affecting more than 1.9 million patients and employees.
The U.K. government's proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is a "good step forward" to encourage ransomware incident reporting, said Ciaran Martin, the former NCSC chief. But he said the success of the new regulations also hinges on the support mechanism for cyber victims.
An attempt by the California statehouse to tame the potential of artificial intelligence catastrophic risks hit a roadblock when Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the measure late last month. One obstacle is lack of a widely-accepted definition for "catastrophic" AI risks.
The world's largest hotel chain agreed Wednesday to pay $52 million and submit to 20 years of third-party monitoring of its cybersecurity program to settle probes into a rash of data breaches affecting millions of guests. The payout is part of a settlement reached with 50 U.S. attorneys general.
Ransom payments are typically tightly held secrets between cybercriminals and their victims, but the Australian government has introduced a cybersecurity bill in Parliament that would require larger businesses to report ransom payments to the government.
IronNet and several former executives agreed to a $6.6 million settlement, ending a class action lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors with inflated revenue projections. The settlement aims to provide relief for investors misled by allegedly inaccurate revenue projections.
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