Mark Townsend reports: Facebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after the Observer exposed the scandal that mired the tech giant in repeated controversy. A court filing reveals that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has in principle settled for an…
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ParkMobile Can’t Escape Data Breach Class Action
Kathryn M. Rattigan of Robinson + Cole has an update on litigation stemming from a breach disclosed in April 2021: The class action lawsuit will continue against ParkMobile LLC for a data breach that affected 21 million users of the parking app (Baker v. ParkMobile LLC).The ParkMobile app allows users to pay for parking without…
Et tu, Last Pass?
Received today: Dear valued customer, We are writing to inform you that we recently detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment. We have determined that an unauthorized party gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account and took portions of source code and some…
Plex warns users to reset passwords after data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Streaming media platform Plex has confirmed a data breach and is warning users to change their passwords. Plex said it discovered the compromise on Tuesday and found the intruder had accessed “a limited subset of data that includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.” Plex vice-president of engineering Schuyler Ullman told TechCrunch that…
Block sued after ex-staffer siphons customer data
Thomas Claburn reports: Block – the digital payments giant formerly known as Square – faces allegations it failed to take adequate measures to protect customers’ personal information. A lawsuit [PDF], filed Tuesday in a federal district in Oakland, California, on behalf of two users of Cash App, operated by Block subsidiary Cash App Investing, claims the company…
UAE: Cybercriminal arrested for trying to embezzle Dh2.8 million in phishing scam
Afkar Ali Ahmed reports: The Sharjah Police have arrested a 32-year-old man who tried to embezzle Dh2.8 million after hacking an advertisement company’s bank account. The Asian suspect committed the cyber fraud through phishing, the police said. Lt.-Col. Muhammad bin Haider, acting head of the Buhaira Comprehensive Police Station, said the suspect was arrested within…