Data Privacy Class Actions on the Rise Podcast Check out this podcast discussion on the rise in privacy class actions brought by plaintiffs under state law—and how the courts are reacting to these causes of action. Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Breach Litigation: Key Laws and...
Like other data breach settlements, you’re not just entitled to a cash payment. Yahoo is offering two years of free credit-monitoring services to anyone who had a compromised Yahoo account. If money sounds better to you, you can ask for a cash payment of $100 as long as you verify...
A January breach at Port Washington-based Arden Claims Service, an administrator of class-action settlements, affected around 50,000 people, making it the fifth-largest of a New York-based company in the first half of the year. The exposed data included names and Social Security numbers, accor...
Breach victims may also choose to opt out of the settlement. If more than 1,500 victims opt out, Scripps would have the option to nullify the settlement agreement, according to the settlement agreement.Ransomware AttackThe class action lawsuit was filed after Scripps suffered a data breach tied...
The settlement benefits individuals whose personal information was compromised in the DuPage Medical Group data breach between July 12 and 13, 2021. You may be eligible for a potential award from the DuPage Medical Group Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit! According to the class action lawsuit, Du...
UnitedHealth Group has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions of people’s personal data fromlast month’s hack of Change Healthcare, its payment processing unit, with more lawsuits likely to come. ...
Department of Veterans Affairs have resulted in large, class-action lawsuits with claims for or settlements in the millions of dollars in some cases. At the April RSA Conference in San Francisco, a number of speakers addressed the technical and legal aspects of the data breach problem. The ...
Healthcare organizations will likely continue to face class action lawsuits and allegations of negligence over their handling of data breaches. But the time and money it takes to see these cases through to the end might not be worth it, making settlements a reasonable resolution. ...
Meanwhile, Amazon was penalized $877 million for breaches of GDPR cookie rules,T-Mobile agreed to pay $350 millionto settle a consolidated class-action lawsuit following a data breach from early 2021, andGoogle agreed to pay $60 millionin penalties for misleading Australians users about obtaining...
1.47 million on average. The price of detecting and containing the breach is even higher at USD 1.63 million. Post-breach expenses—including fines, settlements, legal fees, providing free credit monitoring to affected customers and similar expenditures—cost the average breach victim USD 1.35 ...