Data Breach

23andMe faces a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges lax cybersecurity is to blame for a massive early-October 2023 data breach, which has reportedly resulted in users’ sensitive genetic and ancestry information going up for sale.

TMX Finance Corporate Services, the parent company of lenders TitleMax, TitleBucks and InstaLoan, has warned consumers that it suffered a significant data breach in which the sensitive information of nearly 5 million people was stolen.

BetterHelp faces at least two putative class action lawsuits after being hit with a proposed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consent order banning the online counseling platform from sharing consumers’ data with third parties.

Global password manager LastPass was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit yesterday over a months-long data breach that affected potentially millions of users.

There’s some good news for people whose information was compromised in the massive T-Mobile data breach that occurred last August: a class action settlement has been announced.

Bumble is in the crosshairs of a proposed class action that alleges the dating app has played a little too fast and loose with users’ personal, biometric and behavioral information.

Robinhood Markets, Inc. faces a proposed class action lawsuit in New York over its alleged failure to safeguard reams of confidential information belonging to millions of current and former users of the online stock trading platform.

McDonald’s has been hit with a proposed class action filed by three delivery customers who claim the fast food giant failed to protect their personal information from unauthorized access.

T-Mobile US, Inc. was hit with a proposed class action on Thursday over a data breach announced just days earlier that reportedly affected over 100 million customers.