Sentences with phrase «over data breaches»

Data security and privacy protection laws vary by state, but with concerns over data breaches heating up across the country, the number of penalties like this one is likely to rise.

Yanchunis, who has also been suing Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) over data breaches at its Yahoo Internet business affecting 3 billion accounts, said it should be a «fairly easy exercise» to identify potential Facebook class members.

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.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that he would not be present in front of British lawmakers to explain allegations over the data breach involving Cambridge Analytica.

Read CEC O P Rawat concerned over data breach, Election Commission to review its relationship with Facebook

Amid uproar over data breach at Facebook, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad held discussions with senior ministry officials to explore steps to ensure that consumers data on social media is not misused to influence elections.

Not exact matches

The SEC said Tuesday that Altaba's payment will settle allegations that the company, when it was known as Yahoo, failed to disclose to investors its knowledge of the huge 2014 data breach that exposed the personal data of over 500 million users.

More than half of health - care organizations surveyed by the company say the number of mobile device data breaches had increased over the past 12 months.

Ashley Madison, a website that facilitates extramarital affairs for married people, suffered an epic data breach over the weekend, with hackers threatening to release the personal information of its tens of millions of users.

As the number of reported data breaches continues to blitz U.S. companies — over 6 million records exposed already this year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center — IT budgets are ballooning to combat what corporations see as their greatest threat: faceless, sophisticated hackers from an outside entity.

The company said that it investigated the data breach and has remedied the problem, which resulted in its computer systems going offline periodically over the past few days.

But it is just the highest - profile case in a growing flood of data breaches that have risen in sophistication over the past five years.

A U.S. judge certified a class action against Target brought by several banks over the retailer's massive data breach.

Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) estimated the net loss from data breaches last year at over $ 400 millData Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) estimated the net loss from data breaches last year at over $ 400 milldata breaches last year at over $ 400 million.

The litigation concerns allegations related to two data breaches in 2014 in which over 1.5 billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised.

Continuous data breach hacking events might trigger all - time high user concerns over privacy and security

Indeed SCL Elections worked with Facebook over this period to ensure that they were satisfied that SCL Elections had not knowingly breached any of Facebook's Terms of Service and also provided a signed statement to confirm that all Facebook data and their derivatives had been deleted.

Since taking over, he has reportedly scaled back an investigation into the Equifax data breach, relaxed restrictions on often predatory payday lenders, and recommended Congress pursue sweeping changes to the CFPB's powers.

Uber Technologies Inc. has reportedly paid hackers to delete scores of private data stolen from the company in a security breach that was concealed for over...

Last year there were over 1500 data breaches, compromising over 179 million consumer records.

Social networking giant Facebook has come in for severe criticism over the past week in connection with an alleged data breach on its platform which affected 50 million of its users.

As we have chronicled over the past several months, congressional scrutiny of the Equifax data breach has ebbed and flowed...

My guess would be that over 99 % of companies who've suffered a major incident or breach in the last five years did not have such a list of their systems, their data, and their vendors.

Uber didn't reveal a data breach for over a year, and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro thinks the company failed his constituents.

The issue is, of course, a lot of data is already out there, the 2016 election is already over, and consumers» trust in Facebook has already been breached.

There's been some debate over whether this is a «data breach,» but for the most part that is a red herring.

The Federal Trade Commission will not impose fines on ride - sharing giant Uber over the massive data breach it paid hackers $ 100,000 to cover up, CNN Money reported this week.

The New York Times, however, reported that Kogan provided that data — which included information from over 50 million profiles — to Cambridge Analytica, breaching Facebook's rules.

The tin - eared first lines of defense over such harrowing claims were to argue that what occurred was not technically a «data breach» and to belatedly suspend the firm's account.

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said Facebook will audit thousands of apps in response to the «breach of trust» created by Cambridge Analytica — the chief executive's first comments since a crisis erupted Friday over data siphoned by the political marketing firm used by the Trump campaign.

In a statement, Cambridge Analytica said: «We worked with Facebook over this period to ensure that they were satisfied that we had not knowingly breached any of Facebook's terms of service and also provided a signed statement to confirm that all Facebook data and their derivatives had been deleted.»

A Canadian subsidiary of Equifax Inc. is lobbying Ontario politicians to pump the brakes on a government bill — proposed after the massive data breach at the Atlanta - based company last year — that could provide consumers stronger controls over information held by it and other credit - reporting agencies.

This week, the company faced a congressional hearing over the summer's data breach, and Uber is also still facing government inquiries into its use of its «greyball» software and a myriad of other lawsuits.

«The Equifax data breach highlights the need for consumers to have more control over their credit reports, including the ability to freeze and unfreeze without charge,» said Chi Chi Wu, National Consumer Law Center staff attorney.

«We worked with Facebook over this period to ensure that they were satisfied that we had not knowingly breached any of Facebook's terms of service and also provided a signed statement to confirm that all Facebook data and their derivatives had been deleted,» Cambridge Analytica said in a statement Saturday.

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.

Nearly 23 million private records of New Yorkers have been exposed in data security breaches reported by more than 3,000 businesses, nonprofits and governments over the past eight years, New York's attorney general reported.

The U.S. government has filed criminal and civil charges against a former Equifax Inc. executive over alleged insider trading linked to last year's massive data breach at the credit reporting company, officials said.

Google has come under scrutiny after being found in breach of data protection laws over its controversial Street View function - but has avoided heavy penalties.

The government was defeated over a Liberal Democrat amendment proposing strengthened punishment for those breaching data protection rules yesterday.

Over the weekend, it emerged that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is also investigating Banks and Leave.EU over possible breaches of the Data Protection Over the weekend, it emerged that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is also investigating Banks and Leave.EU over possible breaches of the Data Protection over possible breaches of the Data Protection Act.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office received reports of more than 1,500 data breaches in the year 2017, which exposed the personal records of over nine million New Yorkers.

Team Enigma have failed to spot the breach, and the Metal Box Company is haemorrhaging data: over 2000 documents have left the network.

Police arrested a 15 - year - old boy over a cyber attack on telephone and internet provider TalkTalk, feared to have breached the data of millions of Britons, Scotland Yard said on Monday.

The extramarital dating site was subject to a massive data breach, with hackers accessing the personal information of over 37m users, along with sensitive company information.

LAW360 - Oct 23 - Ashley Madison users suing the online dating site over a 2015 data breach urged a Missouri federal judge to grant final approval to $ 11.2 M deal to end the dispute, arguing that the sole objector had «highly individualized» demands that could not be addressed in a class settlement.

«Over recent months there have been a number of online data protection breaches involving some of the most popular dating sites,» said Paladin's co-founder, Harry Fletcher.

Today, Sony agreed to whooping $ 15 million preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit over the PlayStation Network outage and Data Breach of 2011, which lead to leak of personal information belonging to 77 Million subscribers.

One of the 3 major national credit reporting agencies, Equifax, suffered a data breach that exposed the lifetime data — names, social security numbers, credit scores — of over half the US population.

I was not among the smaller group of readers taking to Twitter in the aftermath of the data breach expressing anger or frustration over the loss of my investment, despite the fact that the total amount I've spent is likely in the range of $ 1,000 (maybe even approaching $ 2,000.