Rebecca Day

Skidmore College discovered a data breach on Feb. 17 and only began notifying affected individuals Sept. 15, alleged plaintiff Mary Cogan in a class action Thusrday (docket 1:23cv1409) in U.S. District for Northern New York in Syracuse.

A defect in Intel central processing units (CPUs) can only be “fixed” by adopting a patch that slows CPU performance by as much as half, said a fraud complaint (docket 4:23-cv-05761) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

An insurance company “downplayed” the nature of Progress Software Corp.’s (PSC) May 29-30 MOVEit software data breach “and the threat it posed to victims" whose personally identifiable information (PII) was “illicitly accessed and stolen,” said a September fraud class action (docket 1:23-cv-09868) removed Wednesday from New York County Supreme Court to the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Defendants Telco Solutions, Telco Enterprise and Voister received VoIP minutes from Milan-based Golem under “misrepresented pretenses” and didn’t pay for them, alleged subrogee Belgian insurer Credendo-Short-Term Non-EU Risks in a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-24258) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Two privacy class actions filed this week in federal courts in New York and California allege defendants violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by disclosing plaintiffs’ identities and video-viewing history to Facebook parent Meta via tracking pixels.

The court should deny defendants’ October motion to dismiss a robocall case (see 2310100001) brought by the attorneys general of 48 states in May, said plaintiffs’ Monday response (docket 4:23-cv-00233) to the motion by VoIP provider Avid Telecom, CEO Michael Lansky and Vice President Stacey Reeves in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson.

IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Janssen CarePath failed to secure plaintiff Kristal Mize’s personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) when they allowed an unauthorized third party to access their computer systems, alleged a privacy class action (docket 7:23-cv-09725) Friday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains.

Plaintiffs brought 12 claims against China-based PDD Holdings and Temu under various privacy, wiretapping and computer crimes laws in a Friday class action (docket 1:23-cv-15653) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. The suit names PDD Holdings, owner of Pinduoduo and Whaleco’s Temu, which is “directly controlled” by PDD.

Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh used Just Walk Out (JWO) technology to collect, use, store and disseminate three Illinois residents’ biometric information and data when they entered a store, regardless of whether they made a purchase, said a privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-15634) removed Friday from Cook County Circuit Court to U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Trust Benefit Technologies (TBT), a software provider for the benefits administrator industry, failed to protect customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a May 16-May 22 data breach when cybercriminals gained access to the company’s IT network, alleged a class action Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-09233) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The company disclosed the breach to customers Oct. 19.