Sentences with phrase «earlier data breaches»

In October, Verizon's top lawyer Craig Silliman said the company has a «reasonable basis» to believe that Yahoo's earlier data breach of at least 500 million email accounts represents a material impact that could allow Verizon to withdraw from the merger.

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management — effectively, the government's human resources department — disclosed that it had fallen victim to a massive data breach that may affect roughly 4 million current and former federal employees.

The bigger issue is that Facebook had known about the data leak as early as two years ago, but did nothing to inform its users — because the violation was not a «breach» of Facebook's security protocols.

Snapchat is also dealing with the snafus that sometimes afflict young and fast - growing technology companies, including having to apologize for a breach earlier this year that caused data such as users» phone numbers to be exposed.

A final point worth making is that although I called this a «data breach» earlier, it's not really a breach at all.

Chipotle also suffered a data breach earlier this year, an incident that hurt its earnings and contributed to another stock slump.

Zuckerberg's earlier grovelling quasi-apology taken out in the UK's largest newspapers refused to rule out daily data breaching.

After the Equifax data breach in early September, readers asked one question repeatedly that had no good answer: Was there any way to punish the company?

She will inherit a series of legal issues the ride - hail behemoth is continuing to grapple with: For instance, Uber is facing fresh lawsuits over its data breach earlier this year and dealt with a number of probes from the U.S. Department of Justice last year.

Uber settled with the Federal Trade Commission earlier this year over a 2014 data breach, and agreed to 20 years of privacy audits as part of that settlement.

Ride service behemoth Uber is currently using its legal resources to focus on researching an internet address that could lead to locating the hacker behind its major data breach earlier this year.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is pushing new legislation introduced this week to tighten state data security laws in the wake of the Equifax breach earlier this year.

As indicated earlier, the threats are real and a number of very high profile data breaches have caused dramatic drops not only in stock value but also in the confidence that clients and the public in general have in very well known business organizations.

(Miss.) A breach in student testing data exposing personal information from more than 660 students across three Mississippi schools earlier this month has state education officials calling for stronger security protocols.

In late March 2018, the world wide web was shaken up by the news of a massive data breach that occurred three years earlier on Facebook, one of the largest and most widely populated social media platforms in existence.

As the recent Equifax data breach earlier this month reminded us, no company is immune to the threat of hackers and the loss of personal information and organizations that are subject to PIPEDA will be obliged to report such incidents.

As Equifax Inc. continues to face fallout from the massive data breach announced earlier this year, the consumer credit reporting company has selected one of its in - house attorneys to oversee its response to the disaster, reports the American Lawyer on law.com.

[1] This follows earlier dismissals of derivative actions stemming from data breaches at Wyndham Worldwide Corporation [2] and Target Corporation.

For those who may have forgotten, Cardsystems was involved in a high - profile data breach earlier this year: The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Incident: Security Breach at CardSystems Solutionsbreach earlier this year: The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Incident: Security Breach at CardSystems SolutionsBreach at CardSystems Solutions Inc..

The US has had at least a common - law action for intrusion upon seclusion for a long time, yet none of the class actions brought as a consequence of a data breach has resulted in a judgment, and the overwhelming majority have been dismissed early on because no damages have been demonstrated.

Under Armour Inc. has on Thursday revealed breach of data in its MyFitnessPal diet and fitness earlier this year, involving some 150 million users.

Bloomberg reports that Under Armour discovered the data breach earlier this week (four days ago) and has taken some steps to inform its MyFitnessPal users through emails and in - ap...

Sandberg defended the company's decision not to tell its users of the breach two years earlier because «we thought the data had been deleted, that's why.»

Following up on its earlier warning, the IT Ministry yesterday issued a notice to social networking giant Facebook seeking its response over the user data breach and details of the measures it has put in place to ensure safety and prevent misuse of personal data.

Those behind the Project Coral Reef project are betting that the currency's privacy features will make it more attractive for mainstream users, particularly in light of major data breaches like the one reported by Equifax earlier this year.

politics.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Earlier this week, a Reuters report suggested that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had halted its investigation into last year's massive Equifax data breach.

zdnet.com - The fitness apparel company learned that data on 150 million accounts for the site and app were breached earlier this week.

Following the massive data breach that Equifax disclosed to the public in early September, news of a second, earlier attack at the credit agency has emerged.