Exposure to cyber crime

Volkswagen and Audi Data Breach Settlement

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and Audi of America, LLC are paying $3.5 million to settle a class action concerning a data breach. The complaint alleged the companies bear responsibility for the cybersecurity incident, which exposed the personal information (PI), such as names, addresses, and email addresses, and sensitive personal information (SPI), such as Social  Read more

Logan Health Data Breach Settlement

Logan Health Medical Center is settling a class action centering on a data breach that it discovered on or around November 22, 2021 and announced around February 18, 2022. The complaint alleged the cyberattack exposed the personal and medical information of more than 213,000 people, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance  Read more

Matco Tools Corporation Data Breach Class Action

Matco Tools Corporation is a franchise that distributes professional tools to the auto and other industries. The complaint for this class action alleges that Matco bears responsibility for a data breach of its systems and the theft from them of personally identifying information (PII) as well as financial information.  Read more

Lakeview Loan Servicing Data Breach South Carolina, Arkansas, and Illinois Class Action

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC is a large mortgage loan servicer that services mortgages for customers in three states, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Illinois. As such, Lakeview maintains a great deal of personally identifiable information (PII) on its more than 1.4 million customers. But the complaint for this class action charges that Lakeview did not take  Read more

Eureka Casino Hotel Data Breach Compromises PII Class Action

Rancho Mesquite Casino, Inc., which does business as Eureka Casino Hotel, says the complaint for this class action, suffered a large data breach that ran from November 9-13, 2022, exposing the personally identifiable information (PII) of casino customers and possibly employees. The complaint faults Eureka for maintaining the data “in a reckless manner” and failing  Read more

Electromed Ransomware Attack and Data Breach Settlement

This settlement resolves a class action against Electromed, Inc. about a ransomware attack in June 2021 in which cybercriminals were able to gain access to the private information of its customers, employees, and even some third-party contractors. The complaint alleged that Electromed bears responsibility for the data breach because of its failure to take adequate  Read more

Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital and KSB Medical Group Data Breach Settlement

Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital and KSB Medical Group are settling a class action about a security incident that occurred at Magnet Solutions, Inc. The complaint alleged that the data breach may have exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI) of certain patients at the hospital or medical group, including names, encounter  Read more

Scripps Health Data Breach Settlement

In April 2021, an unauthorized person made a ransomware attack on Scripps Health in which it installed malware and obtained copies of some of the stored information. Scripps is now settling a class action that resulted from that data breach. The complaint alleged that the information exposed included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers,  Read more

P2 Energy Failure to Protect PII from Data Breach Class Action

P2 Energy, LLC offers software and accounting services for oil and gas companies around the world. But the complaint for this class action alleges that P2 did not take adequate measures to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) it held in its systems from a data breach, and then did not inform the individual victims  Read more

Entrust Corporation Ransomware Attack and Data Breach Class Action

Entrust Corporation and Entrust MN Corporation provide cybersecurity services, the complaint for this class action alleges, including securing transactions and managing sensitive data for companies and government entities. Although Entrust claims to be a leader in cybersecurity, the complaint alleges this is a false claim, because it failed to provide safe or secure storage for  Read more