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  • September 25, 2026

    TikTok To Pay At Least $100M, Curb Teen Use In Alabama Deal

    TikTok agreed to pay at least $100 million and implement usage limits, age verification and other safety measures in a landmark settlement to resolve Alabama's claims the social media platform harmed children and misled users about its safety, the state's attorney general announced Friday.

  • September 25, 2026

    Astrana Health Reveals Spoofing Attack Targeting Private Data

    An Astrana Health unit was the target of a "series" of social engineering cyberattacks in which hackers impersonated the company's employees to gain access to systems that contained private and confidential information about patients and others, the healthcare provider disclosed in a recent regulatory filing. 

  • September 25, 2026

    Ex-Soldier Gets 70-Month Sentence For Telecom Hack Scheme

    A Washington federal judge on Friday sentenced a former U.S. Army soldier to 70 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution for his role in extorting telecommunication companies by hacking their systems and holding sensitive data hostage for ransom.  

  • September 25, 2026

    Judge Moves Sen. Scott's Tax Info Leak Case To DC Court

    A Florida federal court transferred U.S. Sen. Rick Scott's suit against a former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for leaking his personal tax returns to D.C. federal court Friday, saying the employee's conduct didn't happen in Florida.

  • September 25, 2026

    9th Circ. OKs Class Cert. In Classmates.com Name Use Case

    The Ninth Circuit has approved a lower court's certification of a class of Californians suing over their names appearing in the yearbooks platform Classmates.com, rejecting a number of challenges from the website's operator, including that the lead plaintiff couldn't adequately represent the class.

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