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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • August 15, 2025

    Feds Say $2.8M In Seized Crypto Linked To Ransomware Ploy

    Federal prosecutors say they've seized $2.8 million in crypto from accounts controlled by an alleged ransomware attacker.

  • August 15, 2025

    Lee Subscribers Get Final OK For $9.5M Video Privacy Deal

    An Iowa federal judge has given final approval to a $9.5 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing media company Lee Enterprises of illegally disclosing subscribers' video-viewing information to Meta, finding the agreement adequately addresses risks that both sides would have if litigation were to continue.

  • August 15, 2025

    DC Circ. Says $92M Sprint, T-Mobile Privacy Fine Is Here To Stay

    The D.C. Circuit said no way Friday to knocking out $92 million in fines that T-Mobile and Sprint were slapped with for selling users' sensitive location data even after they knew the data was being used inappropriately, saying the fines accounted for the "egregiousness of their conduct."

  • August 15, 2025

    Mich. Bank Keeps Arbitration Win Against Scammed Law Firm

    A marijuana industry-focused law firm must pay its bank nearly $373,000, a deficit sustained after a Nigerian scammer tricked the firm into cashing fraudulent Canadian checks, a Michigan appeals court ruled, rejecting arguments that the bank had a duty to protect the firm "from its own mistakes."

  • August 15, 2025

    Microsoft Unit Agrees To Pay $8.5M In MOVEIt Hack MDL

    A Massachusetts federal judge has preliminarily signed off on an $8.5 million settlement reached between Nuance Communications and more than 1 million patients in multidistrict litigation over a 2023 malware attack that exploited a vulnerability in Progress Software's MOVEIt transfer file tool. 

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