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Lawsuit is a legal action or proceeding involving a dispute between two or more entities or individuals. In the context of information security, lawsuits often arise from incidents such as data breaches, cyberattacks, or violations of privacy laws and regulations. These legal actions may be initiated by affected parties, such as customers or employees whose data was compromised, or by regulatory bodies enforcing compliance with information security standards. Lawsuits in cyber security can also pertain to intellectual property issues, where a party alleges unauthorized use or theft of digital assets. The outcomes of such lawsuits can have significant implications for businesses and organizations, potentially leading to financial penalties, mandated changes in security practices, or reputational damage.
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A judge said Democrats and civil groups filed the lawsuit too early to demonstrate harm, but that could change after newly proposed postal regulations. The post USPS moving forward with mail-in ballot changes as courts weigh Trump’s election order appeared first on CyberScoop.
Calif. Lawsuit: Genetics Testing Firm Missed Red Flags Before Massive 2023 BreachHackers in 2023 went undetected for five months in genetics testing firm 23andMe's IT systems, despite multiple unheeded warning signs, alleges California's attorney general in a lawsuit. Hackers in late April 2023 began accessing 23andMe's systems by using compromised credentials.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against 23andMe, now Chrome Holding Co., over the company's failure to protect sensitive customer genetic and personal information. [...]
California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker
Also: UK Sanctions HTX-Linked EntityThis week, the U.S. sanctioned Sinaloa Cartel-linked networks, the U.K. sanctioned a HTX-linked entity, Syndicate Labs shuttered, Missouri sued CoinFlip, Verus attacker took a bounty deal, StablR was exploited and malicious packages targeted crypto developer systems.
Incident Comes Months After NYS Fined Liberty Mutual $2M in Other HacksInsurance carrier Liberty Mutual is facing proposed class action litigation filed by policyholders who allege their sensitive information was compromised in an April data theft claimed by cybercrime gang Everest Group. The incident is the company's latest data security related troubles.
Musk's Claims Against Altman and Microsoft Dismissed After Less Than Two HoursA federal jury took less than two hours to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, finding his claims were filed outside the statute of limitations. The verdict clears the path for OpenAI's planned IPO at a valuation nearing $1 trillion.
License Frontier AI to Practice Medicine, Argues JAMA ArticleScrutiny is intensifying around the quickly evolving role that AI is playing in healthcare. That includes issues around the transparency and safety of consumer health chatbots and also whether a new clinical AI licensing framework is necessary to protect the integrity of medicine.
Defendant Is Also at Center of a Civil Class Action Against His Former EmployerA federal grand jury has indicted a former Maryland hospital pharmacist, alleging he "weaponized" tech tools - including keylogging - to steal credentials and spy on nearly 200 co-workers and other individuals over an eight-year period. The defendant is also the subject of a similar civil lawsuit.
The woman’s lawyer told CyberScoop they believe the company edited her video to suggest she was a “friend with benefits” and intentionally geofenced it to men around her. The post A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory appeared first on CyberScoop.
ShinyHunters Gang Claims It Stole 9M Records From Medical Device MakerMedtronic is already facing at least a half-dozen proposed class action lawsuits filed in federal court just days after the medical device maker confirmed that cybercriminals recently hacked into its corporate IT systems. Plaintiffs include patients that use the company's cardiac devices and other products.
Elon Musk's Lawsuit Threatens a $852B AI EmpireElon Musk took the stand this week in a lawsuit that could unwind OpenAI's corporate structure, derail its IPO bid and transform the artificial intelligence landscape. The stakes are high for enterprise customers that bet on OpenAI's technology platform.
Also: Updates in KelpDAO, Drift, Hyperbridge HacksThis week, Grinex was exploited, a hacker laundered KelpDAO funds, Circle was sued over $280M Drift hack, Rhea Finance and Volo Protocol were exploited, update in Hyperbridge hack, sentencing in art scam case, a French home invasion for crypto theft and eth.limo hijack thwarted.
Complaints Allege Tempus AI Lacked Consent to Use, Share Data With Pharma Cos.A healthcare artificial intelligence firm that sells genetic information from an acquired database holding the results of millions of screening tests faces multiple putative class action lawsuits in Chicago federal court. Genetic data resists attempts to de-identify it, plaintiffs say.
Patients Allege Health Entities Did Not Get Consent to Record ConversationsProposed federal class action litigation alleges that two California healthcare organizations violated patient privacy in their use of an AI-enabled ambient tool that records, transcribes, and processes sensitive conversations between clinicians and patients without individuals' consent.
Also: Chinese Firms Indicted in Crypto-Linked Fentanyl Supply CaseThis week, charges filed in Uranium Finance hack, indictment of Chinese firms in fentanyl supply case, a class action lawsuit against Nvidia, Drift Protocol exploit, KuCoin operational barriers in the United States and a U.K. sanction filed against Xinbi.
Iowa Seeking Civil Monetary Fines, Damages for Alleged ViolationsIowa's state attorney general is seeking financial damages, civil penalties and improvements to UnitedHealth Group's data security practices for alleged violations of state and federal laws and other claims involving the 2024 ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit.
Medtech Maker Is Still Recovering While Iranian Hackers Threaten More Attack VictimsAs medtech maker Stryker continues working to restore global IT systems brought offline by a cyberattack last week, class action lawsuits against the company are piling up in federal court and the Iranian hackers claiming credit for the attack are warning of more assaults to come on other victims.
Epic v. Health Gorilla Lawsuit Spurs New Claims Over Alleged Patient Records MisuseA telehealth firm has admitted that it gained access to patient medical records via a health information exchange network under the guise of treatment purposes when it actually provided the records to law firms. But the legal dispute involving Epic and Health Gorilla is growing more complicated.
The Ninth Circuit has paused a lower-court order as the companies dispute whether user-approved automation can access password-protected accounts without the platform’s permission. The post Appeals court temporarily pauses order blocking Perplexity’s AI shopping agent on Amazon appeared first on CyberScoop.