The Philadelphia Inquirer knew of a May 2023 data breach of its computer network affecting the personally identifiable information (PII) of current and former employees and subscribers, but it waited nearly a year to inform victims of the cyberattack, a May 6 negligence class action alleged (docket 2:24-cv-02499). It was removed Friday from the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania. The suit also names the Inquirer’s owner, the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
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K-12 educational platform Securly “knowingly and willfully surveilled” student activity on their school-issued devices and collected their geolocation data without proper consent, alleged a privacy class action Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-02159) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota in St. Paul.
Public sector software company Tyler Technologies maintained and used the plaintiff's and class members’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a “reckless manner,” a negligence complaint filed Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00425) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall alleged.
The DOJ filed a civil forfeiture action Wednesday to recover $5.3 million of funds it traced to an email scheme targeting an unnamed Massachusetts workers union, said DOJ in a news release Wednesday. It seeks to forfeit assets that constitute the proceeds of wire fraud, property involved in money laundering, and property traceable to such property under 18 U.S.C. Section 981(a)(1)(A).
Intel and 13 officers and board members breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders and the company by making “materially false and misleading statements” about its contract chipmaking foundry business, Intel Foundry Services (IFS), alleged a Securities Exchange Act complaint (docket 1:24-cv-00651) in U.S. District Court for Delaware.
Major textbook publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier and McGraw Hill are accusing Google of either direct copyright infringement, or contributory and vicarious infringement, plus violations of New York General Business Law, said their complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-04274) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Privacy implications likely will play a significant role in DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple over its alleged monopoly in the smartphone market, said Temple University associate law professor Erika Douglas on a webinar Tuesday produced by George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School.
Plaintiff Efstathios Maroulis and some 500,000 class members suffered “concrete injuries” due to a data breach at art auction house Christie’s, alleged Maroulis' class action Monday (docket 1:24-cv-04221) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
Employees at Illinois companies that use Recognition Systems scanners are required to have their hand geometry scanned into a biometric device as a condition of employment, exposing them to “serious and irreversible privacy risks,” alleged an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) class action Monday (docket 9:24-cv-03999) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York.
A product line manager at photonics company Lumentum bought 10,000 shares of NeoPhotonics a week before Lumentum announced it would buy the optoelectronics company, said an SEC securities fraud complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-04231) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.