Following Equifax’s announcement of the massive data security breach in September 2017, hundreds of cases were filed across the country. On December 6, 2017, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered that all cases be transferred to the Northern District of Georgia and assigned to the Honorable Thomas W. Thrash…. read more
Originally posted on DocSlide. The question in the courtroom has shifted from whether the fungicide damaged plants to whether DuPont concealed evidence. Most likely, no one will ever know what really happened in the spring of 1991. After DuPont pulled its Benlate DF fungicide from the market suspecting contamination, the… read more
Originally posted on SlashGear by Chris Davies on March 1, 2018. 2.4 million more US consumers were affected by the huge Equifax leak last year than previously known, the company has admitted today. The revelation comes after several months of forensic data investigation as Equifax attempted to identity exactly who… read more
On January 27, 2017, Distribution International informed employees that they were a victim of an email spoofing attack that compromised employee personal information. The notice states that a data breach occurred, which allowed a hacker to obtain year-end tax reporting information via a fictitious email on January 25, 2017. READ… read more
Originally posted on TwinCities.com by Bob Shaw on February 20, 2018. A $5 billion water-pollution lawsuit, which pitted 3M Co. against Minnesota’s attorney general, ended on the day it was supposed to go to trial Tuesday. In a surprise settlement, 3M agreed to give $850 million to the state for water… read more
Originally posted on Slash Gear by Shane McGlaun on February 20, 2018. VW has yet to claw its way out from under the mess surrounding its cheating diesel cars and may not for a long time to come. Reports are now indicating that Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler might have used software to… read more
Originally posted on MLive by Garret Ellison on February 1, 2018. Within days of bringing their newborn baby daughter home from the hospital, Jeffrey Klekotka and his girlfriend Kelsey were being supplied with bottled water and gift cards. The expanding investigation into local groundwater tainted by Wolverine World Wide tannery sludge chemicals… read more
On January 18, 2018, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. suffered a ransomware attack in their Raleigh and Charlotte data centers. The attack prevented health providers who use Allscripts’ Professional EHR and electronic prescription products from conducting their routine business. What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a subset of malware in which the… read more
Originally posted on The Register by Iain Thomson on December 2, 2017. The National Credit Federation, a US credit repair biz, left 111GB of thousands of folks’ highly sensitive personal details exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers. In yet another AWS S3 configuration cockup, Americans’ names, addresses,… read more
Originally posted by The New York Times by Jack Ewing on January 25, 2018. In 2014, as evidence mounted about the harmful effects of diesel exhaust on human health, scientists in an Albuquerque laboratory conducted an unusual experiment: Ten monkeys squatted in airtight chambers, watching cartoons for entertainment as they… read more