Sentences with phrase «company on the breach»

Obtained summary judgments for companies on breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, premises liability, fraud, and unjust enrichment claims.

The court next considered the Owner's challenge to the jury verdict in favor of the Auction Company on the breach of fiduciary duty claims.

Not exact matches

With high - profile breaches rocking companies like Under Armour and Boeing, the cybersecurity business is not slowing down anytime soon, CNBC's Jim Cramer said on Friday.

Recognizing that breaches can and do happen, companies should focus on protecting the company's «crown jewels» — assets deemed most valuable, said experts.

But on Wednesday, the company provided new details of the 2014 attack, and once again pointed to «the same state - sponsored actor» who committed the 2014 breach.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 - Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for two massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents for at least one of them, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 - Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for a pair of massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks involving major U.S. companies.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters)- Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for a pair of massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks involving major U.S. companies.

Quest Diagnostics, a New Jersey - based medical laboratory company, disclosed a data breach affecting about 34,000 people on Monday.

Three senior executives including the company's chief financial officer sold $ 1.8 million in shares three days after the company learned on July 29 hackers had breached personal data for up to 143 million Americans.

Equifax said in a regulatory filing that it might claw back some of Smith's compensation for this year, depending on results of the board's investigation into the breach, which the company has said occurred between mid-May and July.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters)- Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for two massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents for at least one of them, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.

Hudson's Bay Company, which owns both retail chains, released a statement Sunday about the data breach, noting that it does not impact shoppers who bought items on digital platforms.

As more and more businesses worry about data protection, breaches and security (while cybercrime and DDOS attacks on the rise), it's no wonder all businesses are flocking to the protective arms of IT support companies.

The trend now is looking behind a traditional firewall around a company, and going on the offense so they can stop breaches before they happen or while they're in process.

The EC announced the investigation on Monday, saying it is concerned that IKEA may have been given «an unfair advantage over other companies, in breach of EU State aid rules.»

«We're looking into some unusual activity that might indicate a possible payment data breach and we're working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate,» the company said on its corporate website.

And herein lies the ethical question, posed to me by a director today: «When does hanging on or digging in breach a fiduciary duty by the director to act in the company's best interest, rather than the director's?»

Anthem, the second largest health insurance company in the U.S., announced a massive data breach on Feb. 5.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

«Anthem's own associates» personal information — including my own — was accessed during this security breach,» wrote Joseph Swedish, president and CEO of Anthem, on a Web site—www.anthemfacts.com — the company set up amid the attack's disclosure.

About 60 percent of large companies across the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Australia have increased their spending on cybersecurity since last year's Target breach, Reuters reports.

In September, Deloitte, one of the world's largest accounting firms, reported that hackers breached the company's email, accessing sensitive information on 350 clients, including the U.S. government, banks, and other corporations.

The results suggest that breaches would take an extreme financial toll on smaller companies as well.

Equifax CEO Richard Smith previously apologized on Thursday for the data breach and said, «This is clearly a disappointing event for our company, and one that strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do.»

The Wall Street Journal also reported that prior to Equifax's data breach disclosure on Thursday, a congressional panel was debating a proposed bill that would lower the fines credit - monitoring companies receive when they issue flawed credit reports for their customers.

said Friday that his committee intends to hold a hearing on the historic data breach, which cybersecurity experts said dwarf other high - profile security incidents affecting companies like Yahoo (yhoo) and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

«Obviously I am incredibly angry about this data breach and we will institute a thorough review of our relationship with Experian,» T - Mobile Chief Executive John Legere said in a note to customers posted on the company's website.

Equifax, the embattled credit scoring company that is still reeling from last fall's massive data breach that exposed information on more than...

The interview was one of several that Sandberg gave on Thursday explaining how the Cambridge Analytica breach took place and taking responsibility for the company's handling of users» data, which the company has said were «improperly shared.»

Mulligan, the interim CEO, has served as the company's chief spokesman on the data breach, holding up well under scrutiny during Congressional hearings.

At the same time, regulators on the mainland told banks to stop extending financial support to companies breaching the government's capacity reduction plans, Reuters reported.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) brought up specific potential rules and regulations — the Honest Ads Act, which she and other lawmakers put forth in October to institute new rules on political ads, and the idea of requiring companies to inform users of a data breach within 72 hours, which is in a European law that is about to be instituted.

At the same time, there are fresh concerns about the security of bitcoin and other virtual currencies after NiceHash, a company that mines bitcoins on behalf of customers, said it is investigating a breach that may have resulted in the theft of about $ 70 million worth of bitcoin.

That was the basis the entire company was built on,» Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who went public about the data breach, told the Observer.

One lawsuit filed yesterday in Northern California on behalf of a Facebook shareholder, Jeremiah Hallisey, alleges the company's senior management «breached their fiduciary duties by failing to prevent the initial misappropriation [of user data by CA] and, after learning of it in 2015, failing to inform affected Facebook users or the public markets».

Pressed on why he didn't inform users, in 2015, when Facebook says it found out about this policy breach, Zuckerberg avoided a direct answer — instead fixing on what the company did (asked Cambridge Analytica and the developer whose app was used to suck out data to delete the data)-- rather than explaining the thinking behind the thing it did not do (tell affected Facebook users their personal information had been misappropriated).

In a blog post addressing the breach, Khosrowshahi laid out plans for how the company will address the fallout of the incident, including bringing on a former NSA general counsel to provide guidance to Uber's security teams, and notifying drivers whose license numbers were included in the breach.

SAN FRANCISCO Uber on Thursday plans to announce changes to how it rewards cyber researchers who report flaws in its software, a company executive told Reuters, as part of the ride - hailing firm's response to concerns raised about the way it handled a data breach in 2016.

When interviewing potential partners, be sure to ask for specifics on the company's security processes, as well as on their protocol for dealing with breaches.

WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO U.S. regulators fined Altaba Inc, the company formerly known as Yahoo! Inc, $ 35 million on Tuesday to settle charges that kept its massive 2014 cyber security breach a secret from investors for more than two years.

More facts came to light on Monday, when pressured by local media, the company revealed that the breach occurred after an unknown attacker hacked the personal computer of a Bithumb employee, from where he stole the details of over 31,800 Bithumb users — about 3 % of the platform's entire userbase.

On its road to success, TCS has set another milestone by becoming the first Indian company to breach the market cap of $ 100 Billion.

Additionally, different personnel may need to be on a team depending on the significance of the breach (whether it is at a mid-size or company - threatening level), type of breach (whether computer incursion or insider employee theft) or type of the information at issue in the breach (whether the breach involves social security numbers, credit or debit card numbers, personal health information or trade secrets).

While the misuse and exploitation of information people share with companies does not constitute the type of «breach» or theft discussed in the previous chapter on security (because the information was not technically stolen), the potential for harm to individuals and to vulnerable categories of people is nonetheless very real.

April 14 Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services on Saturday recommended investors vote against the re-election of five Equifax Inc directors who served on the company's audit and technology committees prior to a 2017 data breach.

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services on Saturday recommended investors vote against the re-election of five Equifax Inc directors who served on the company's audit and technology committees prior to a 2017 data breach.

Companies still get to collect data on their customers, but it's anonymized information, giving customers greater confidence that their personal data won't be exposed in a security breach.

The breach allowed the company to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of the American electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on President Trump's campaign in 2016.

In doing so, he called on Congress to pass a new law that would require companies to improve their security practices and disclose breaches — something that lawmakers, even in the face of major cyber attacks, have long failed to do.