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Canada’s LifeLabs Found to Have Botched Customer Data Protection Efforts
Canadian laboratory testing company LifeLabs failed to adequately protect sensitive health information of millions of people, resulting in one of the biggest data breaches in the country last year, ...
EasyJet Data Breach Lawsuit Draws More Than 10,000 People
EasyJet Plc faces a lawsuit over a data breach disclosed last month that potentially exposed private details of 9 million passengers. More than 10,000 people have joined the suit since it was filed ...
Facebook Pledges Security Improvements After Hack of 29 Million Users
Facebook Inc. pledged to improve security protocols to resolve a lawsuit blaming the company for a 2018 data breach that exposed personal data of 29 million users. The company will check more ...
Equifax Customers Will Struggle to Get Claims Properly Addressed
Consumers affected by the massive Equifax Inc data breach in 2017 will not reap any windfalls from the credit reporting company's $700 million U.S. settlement announced on Monday, but may face a ...
Equifax Will Fork Over Up to $700M in U.S. Breach Probe Resolution
Equifax Inc. agreed to pay up to $700 million to resolve U.S. federal and state investigations into the 2017 hack that compromised some of the most sensitive information of more than 140 million ...
Marriott CEO Will Testify Before U.S. Senate Panel On December Data Breach
Marriott International Inc Chief executive Arne Sorenson will testify before a U.S. Senate panel Thursday about a hacking incident it reported in December that exposed the records of up to 383 ...
Q&A Website Quora Discloses 100 Million Users Hit by Security Breach
About 100 million users of Quora were affected by unauthorized access to one of its systems by a "malicious third party," the knowledge-sharing website said on Monday. Account information, including ...
British Airways Data Hack Exposes Airline to Fines Under New EU Data Rules
British Airways may become the first high-profile company to run afoul of Europe's far-reaching data privacy rules -- and face potentially hefty fines -- after a computer hack compromised credit card ...