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In 2017, consumer credit rating giant Equifax suffered one of the country's largest data breaches, exposing the personal information of 147 million U.S. citizens, or roughly 40% of the population ...
On September 7, 2017, Equifax disclosed the breach and its scope: affecting over 140 million Americans. [24] VentureBeat called the exposure of data on 140+ million customers "one of the biggest data breaches in history." [25] Equifax shares dropped 13% in early trading the day after the breach was made public. [26]
A class action lawsuit filed in January 2019 claims Equifax used "admin" as both password and username for a portal with sensitive information.
According to a recent report by the Federal Trade Commission, 1 in 20 Americans have meaningful errors on their credit reports that need to be corrected. One major credit reporting bureau just ...
On March 12, 2007, Viacom sued YouTube, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works". [4]
[31] [32] This prompted YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki to respond three months later with "Thank you @YouTube community for all the feedback. We're listening" in February 2016. [33] Videos continued to be removed and flagged on the site when copyright claims were made against uploaders for using the alleged use of protected material.
Double Dragon [a] is a hacker group with alleged ties to the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). [4] Classified as an advanced persistent threat, the organization was named by the United States Department of Justice in September 2020 in relation to charges brought against five Chinese and two Malaysian nationals for allegedly compromising more than 100 companies around the world.
Facebook recently paid 1.4 million Illinois residents $397 in 2022 as part of a class action lawsuit for facial recognition breaches through its “Tag Suggestions” feature, per CNBC.