In a claim that appears to contradict Yahoo’s public statements on two record-setting breaches of users’ personal data, a Texas insurance agent is alleging in a just-filed class-action lawsuit that his credit card data was stolen in the hacks, leading to fraudulent charges. Brian Neff, who owns an online insurance company based in Little Elm, Texas, said in the suit he paid Yahoo for web …
A Yahoo shareholder launched a class action lawsuit this week accusing the ailing tech giant of lying about and “recklessly” failing to disclose cybersecurity problems and massive data breaches, thereby violating federal securities laws and costing shareholders “significant losses and damages.” Yahoo suffered two massive breaches in 2016 hitting 1.5 billion user accounts across both incidents. …
Advocate Health Care will pay $5.55 million to settle allegations it violated federal patient privacy law — the largest such settlement paid by a single entity. The settlement with the federal government follows an investigation that began in 2013 when Advocate reported three separate data breaches involving its physician-led medical group subsidiary, Advocate Medical Group. The breaches …