About 140,000 customers had social security numbers compromised, and about 80,000 people had their bank account numbers compromised. Data including names, addresses, contact information and birthdates of customers could have been accessed, Capital One said in a press release announcing the hack, which it said it discovered last month. Capital One said that information on customers who applied …
Yahoo’s humongous hack attack is far from over, y’all. It now has folks screaming — “Show me the money!!” Yep, the first lawsuits are rolling in from pissed off users after Yahoo announced 500 million accounts were breached.
A judge on Wednesday approved a multimillion dollar settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose private information was stolen in a massive data breach. The U.S. government blamed the hack on North Korea in an attempt to derail the release of the North Korean-focused comedy “The Interview.” U.S. District Judge R. Gary …
A year and a half after Sony Pictures was devastated in a massive hack that saw thousands of employees’ personal information ending up exposed online, the class action lawsuit against the studio has come to an end — though legal action from the hack itself hasn’t. Today in a sometimes contentious hearing in federal court in downtown Los Angeles, a multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from …
Home Depot’s security breach 18 months ago was hugely embarrassing for the company, and only now is it coming near to finally bringing the matter to a close. The retail giant said Tuesday it’s agreed to pay a minimum of $19.5 million in compensation to customers caught up in the incident that saw cybercriminals nab payment card information and email addresses belonging to tens of millions of …