All posts tagged "Datasecurity"

The Metropolitan Opera failed to properly safeguard the credit card numbers and other personal information of more than 45,000 patrons and employees compromised in a massive computer hack during 2022, says a class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. Former Met employee Anthony Viti, the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit filed last week, claims that his Social Security number, his driver’s license number, his date of birth and financial account information were all accessed by hackers. “For approximately two months, The Met failed to detect an intruder with access to and pos......

A Lynnwood, Washington-based debt-collection company has been sued for compromising the names and Social Security information of more than 3.7 million individuals in a data breach in April 2021. Multiple lawsuits filed in federal court in Washington this week claim the firm, Receivables Performance Management, failed to notify impacted individuals of the breach for more than 18 months. RPM's attorney Brian Middlebrook, a partner at New York-based law firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, said the company apologizes for the inconvenience the incident has caused. RPM conducted an investigation bef......

SAN FRANCISCO – The ex-chief security officer of Uber Technologies Inc. has been convicted of covering up a 2016 data breach involving 57 million of the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company’s users, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. A jury on Wednesday found Joseph Sullivan guilty of obstruction of justice and misprision of felony, or having knowledge that a federal felony was committed and taking steps to conceal that crime, prosecutors said in a statement. He faces up to five years for the obstruction charge and up to three years for the misprision charge. According to the U.S. At......