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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

Blue Otter Polarized Biometrics for Virtual Try-On Illinois BIPA Class Action

Blue Otter, LLC, which does business as Blue Otter Polarized, sells its sunglasses at its website, permitting customers to use a Virtual Try-On feature. But the complaint for this class action alleges that website visitors who use this feature are sometimes residents of Illinois, and that Blue Otter does not fulfill the requirements of an  Read more

Titleist, FootJoy Websites Visitor Wiretapping Class Action

Businesses nowadays believe they need detailed information on their potential customers in order to succeed. But in trying to gather this data, the complaint alleges, some companies are violating the privacy rights of visitors to their websites. It brings suit against Acushnet Company and Acushnet Holdings Corp., alleging that the companies gather too much information  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

Highmark Health Options Prerecorded Telephone Calls TCPA Settlement

Highmark BCBSD Health Options, Inc. is settling a class action alleging that it made prerecorded calls to consumers without their prior consent. The complaint alleged that Highmark violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) when it had its vendor Coviti place calls that were made with a prerecorded or artificial voice to consumers without first  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