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‘Order This, Get This’: Social-media influencers are in Amazon’s legal crosshairs for promoting generic Amazon listings with the promise to get prohibited counterfeit luxury items instead. Continue reading Amazon Sues Instagram, TikTok Influencers Over Knockoff Scam
Anthem has agreed to pay $39.5 million in penalties and fees resulting from a sweeping 2015 cyberattack on the health insurer as part of a multi-state settlement, the company announced Wednesday. It’s the latest fallout from a major data breach that exposed data on some 79 million people, and which U.S. authorities have blamed on a Chinese hacker. The settlement, based on an investigation by attorneys general in over 40 states, requires Anthem to implement a security program that includes penetration-testing, and logging and monitoring of networks. It also bars Anthem from misrepresenting how the company protects its customers’ privacy and security, according to the New York attorney general’s office. “The company is pleased to have resolved this matter, which is the last open investigation related to the 2015 cyberattack,” Indianapolis-based Anthem said in a statement, adding that it has an “ongoing and consistent focus on protecting information.” The repercussions of the […]
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Threatpost editors discuss a cryptomining malware targeting AWS systems, a recent development in a lawsuit against the IBM-owned Weather Channel app, and more. Continue reading News Wrap: AWS Cryptojacking Worm, IBM Privacy Lawsuit and More
The lawsuit alleged that the IBM-owned Weather Channel mobile app did not let users know it was selling their geolocation data. Continue reading IBM Settles Lawsuit Over Weather Channel App Data Privacy
Marriott International is the subject of a lawsuit in the United Kingdom brought by millions of former guests seeking compensation for the exposure of their data in a massive breach. The class action-style lawsuit, filed by U.K. resident Martin Bryant, comes in response to a security incident in which hackers accessed information about more than 300 million people between July 2014 and September 2018. The breach, first revealed in 2018, included data such as email addresses, phone numbers and credit card data about people who booked reservations through the Starwood Hotels chain, which Marriott acquired. U.S. officials privately attributed the breach to hackers working on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security, the New York Times reported. Passport numbers belonging to some 25 million people were also involved. In a statement, Bryant said he filed the lawsuit because the hotel operators had failed to “take adequate steps to ensure the […]
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The proposed law comes as police departments around the country for their use of facial recognition to identify allegedly violent Black Lives Matter protesters. Continue reading Senate Bill Would Expand Facial-Recognition Restrictions Nationwide
The video-conferencing specialist has yet to roll out full encryption, but it says it’s working on it. Continue reading Zoom Faces More Legal Challenges Over End-to-End Encryption
After more than a year of legal wrangling and bureaucratic delays, a major lawsuit is moving forward against a fintech giant for its allegedly lax cybersecurity practices. A Pennsylvania credit union is taking on Fiserv, a Fortune 500 company that claims clients in over 100 countries, in a case that is a test of the legal obligations big financial firms have to protect client data. Bessemer System Federal Credit Union’s (FCU) originally sued Fiserv in April 2019. After moving to federal court, the case took on new life Tuesday when a judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that the court would hear some of the credit union’s claims against Fiserv. The credit union accuses Fiserv, one of three companies that provide the majority of digital infrastructure used by small banks, of taking cybersecurity for granted. “Rather than addressing the problems by updating its security, Fiserv continued to use […]
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The phishing campaign targeted Office 365 accounts in 62 countries, using business-related reports and the coronavirus pandemic as lures. Continue reading Microsoft Seizes Malicious Domains Used in Mass Office 365 Attacks
After a months-long court battle, Facebook has reinstated four accounts of people employed by Israeli software surveillance firm NSO Group, according to Israeli news outlet CTech. NSO Group employees had alleged in a suit filed last November that Facebook had unfairly blocked them from their personal accounts when Facebook’s WhatsApp sued the surveillance firm in October. An Israeli court had previously ordered Facebook to unblock the accounts in February. Last month, the court rejected Facebook’s appeal, according to CTech. It’s the latest legal scuffle between the social media giant and NSO Group, which is being sued in California over allegations its software was used to spy on thousands of WhatsApp users. In a statement to CTech, Facebook indicated the decision to reinstate the accounts would not affect the lawsuit. “Throughout the entire proceedings in Israel, NSO Group operated behind the scenes to sabotage our efforts to make it admit its responsibility for attacks […]
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