An organization’s information security team, led by its chief information security officer, “stands on the front lines against cyberattacks,” said roughly four dozen current and former CISOs in an amicus brief Friday (docket 1:23-cv-09518) at the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in support of SolarWinds’ motion to dismiss the SEC’s amended securities fraud complaint (see 2403250039).
A YouTube video by ComplaintBox attacked Crash Proof Retirement by falsely stating that the plaintiff “exists to exploit seniors,” said a complaint Nov. 17 (docket 2:23-cv-04546) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia brought by Crash Proof and parent company Retirement Media Inc. (RMI).
AT&T and its debt collector Afni violated the Pennsylvania Fair Credit Extension Uniformity Act and other statutes when they tried to hold plaintiff Ellen Rubinstein responsible for nearly $1,500 in fraudulent charges on an AT&T account opened in her name by an identity thief, alleged Rubinstein’s complaint Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-01139) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. AT&T claimed to have investigated her dispute, only to contact her Dec. 13 with a finding that the fraudulent charges were hers, it said. Rubinstein, a King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, resident “devoted exorbitant time and energy jumping through the various hoops insisted upon by AT&T, yet the telecommunications giant could not bother to even explain why it disbelieved Rubinstein’s sworn statement,” it said. The actions of AT&T and Afni “were knowing, intentional, willful, wanton, and in reckless disregard” for Rubinstein’s rights, it said. The defendants are liable to her “for the full amount of statutory, actual and treble damages,” plus attorneys’ fees and court costs and any “such further relief, as may be permitted by law,” it said. AT&T and Afni didn’t comment.