13.3 million people’s medical data exposed in settlement with companies
New York AG settles with Perry Johnson & Associates for $300,000 over breach exposing 13.3M medical records, with $9.7M more at risk if terms unmet.
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New York AG settles with Perry Johnson & Associates for $300,000 over breach exposing 13.3M medical records, with $9.7M more at risk if terms unmet.
Investigators say OnStar’s Smart Driver data reached insurers through brokers, and the OnStar app misled more than 370,000 drivers.
The pending deal covers a 2023 breach of nearly 7 million people’s data and preserves deletion and sample-destruction rights.
Compromised employee and vendor credentials exposed SSNs of 58,841 Connecticut residents; a class action covers about 750,000 people.
New York and Connecticut secured $2.7 million from Boston Children's Health Physicians and XTIUM over a 2024 patient-data breach.

A federal judge approved AT&T’s $177 million settlement over two 2024 customer data breaches.
A systematization finds decentralized agent workflows can pass each check yet fail end-to-end verification-to-settlement guarantees.
Labcorp will pay $2.3 million and overhaul security after a 44-state settlement tied to the 2019 AMCA breach.
Labcorp will pay $2.3 million and overhaul vendor security after a 2019 breach of 10.2 million customers.

Apple pays $250 million settlement for delayed Siri AI features promised with iPhone 16 launch.
HHS Office for Civil Rights settled a HIPAA Security Rule investigation with California genetic testing firm Ambry Genetics.

Authors and publishers are filing competing claims over payouts from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement covering 482,000 pirated books.
Grindr will pay $35.2 million to settle a UK privacy lawsuit alleging it shared users' HIV status with advertisers.

Grindr will pay £26m ($35.2m) to settle UK group claims alleging unlawful sharing of sensitive data, including HIV status, before 2020, without admitting liability.

Grindr will pay £26 million ($35.1M) to settle U.K. claims from 10,000+ users over pre-2020 sharing of HIV status and other sensitive data.

Authors report publishers and agents wrongly claiming shares of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, which pays $3,000 per pirated work across roughly 500,000 titles.
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and cap teen Facebook and Instagram use at two hours daily, settling child-safety lawsuits from most US states.

Meta settles states' kids' online safety lawsuit for $17 billion, agreeing to landmark usage limits, age restrictions, and independent auditing.

TikTok will pay $400 million to settle U.S. DOJ/FTC claims that it violated COPPA by collecting data from children under 13.

TikTok agrees to pay $400 million to settle a DOJ child-privacy lawsuit alleging COPPA violations including collecting data from children under 13.

Pornhub parent Aylo will pay $120 million settling child sexual abuse class actions, without admitting liability, and adopt stricter content moderation commitments.
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