Rebecca Day

Amazon has “quietly and deliberately" raised prices through "a covert operation called ‘Project Nessie'” that has “extracted" more than $1 billion from American homes, alleges the FTC's in a newly released public complaint (docket 2:23-cv-1495), a less-redacted version of the agency's Sept. 26 antitrust complaint against the e-commerce giant.

Subscriptions to X Premium, formerly Twitter Blue, sold to California consumers violate the state’s Automatic Renewal Law (ARL), alleged a complaint Tuesday (docket CGC 23-610081) in California Superior Court for San Francisco County.

An August data breach at the University of Michigan led to unauthorized access of personal data of students, applicants, alumni, donors, employees, contractors, research study participants and patients, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-12783) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The “carelessness" and "negligence" of MGM Resorts International, plus its lack of oversight and proper supervision, caused customers victimized in the company's September data breach "to lose all sense of privacy,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-01777) in U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas.

A hacker, with the help of a Verizon store assistant manager, gained access to a customer’s financial accounts through a SIM card swap, stealing $300,000 from his cryptocurrency account, alleged a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-09556) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The breach of contract suit names Verizon and Coinbase as co-defendants.

Biden administration officials, including some in the Department of Health and Human Services, violated the First Amendment by directing companies to censor viewpoints that conflict with the government’s COVID-19 messaging, said a New Civil Liberties Alliance petition Tuesday asking an en banc 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals or the three-judge panel to rehear Changizi, et al. v. HHS, et al.

Western Digital continues to market defective SanDisk Extreme and Extreme Pro portable solid-state drives (SSDs), despite those defects having caused some drives to delete data without warning and leaving them “entirely unreadable,” alleged an Aug. 29 fraud class action in San Jose County Superior Court that Western Digital and SanDisk removed Tuesday (docket 5:23-cv-05603) to U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

SolarWinds is “disappointed by the SEC’s unfounded charges related to a Russian cyberattack on an American company," and it's "deeply concerned this action will put our national security at risk,” emailed a spokesperson Tuesday. The SEC's 10-count lawsuit alleged SolarWinds and Timothy Brown, its chief information security officer, were guilty of Securities and Exchange Act violations.

Biotechnology company 23andMe failed to state in a notice of a data breach whether it successfully contained or ended the cybersecurity threat, said a class action (docket 3:23-cv-05565) Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The company, which maps individual genomes of customers to create reports on subjects’ ancestry and genetic health risks, also fails to state how the breach occurred, the complaint said.

At various times from March 2021 to April, the defendants in a fraud lawsuit marketed, distributed and sold counterfeit Nintendo products on Amazon.com using Nintendo’s trademarks, without authorization, alleged co-plaintiffs Amazon and Nintendo in a complaint Friday (docket 2:23-cv-01641) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Defendants Does 1-10 are currently unknown to the plaintiffs, said the complaint.