Privacy

January 19, 2023 A proposed class action lawsuit accuses BetMGM of failing to adequately protect consumers’ personal data from a cyberattack in May 2022.

January 18, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses CommonSpirit Health of failing to protect patients’ personal information from a data breach that occurred between September and October 2022.

January 17, 2023 Samsung faces a class action lawsuit that claims the electronics company failed to protect consumers’ personal information from a cyberattack in early August 2022.

January 16, 2023 Twitter faces a class action that alleges an API "defect" allowed hackers to “scrape” the personal data of hundreds of millions of users.

January 13, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Steel River Systems, LLC of failing to protect consumers’ information from a “massive” data breach between May and July 2022.

January 12, 2023 A class action lawsuit has been filed against United HealthCare Services, Inc. by a Florida resident who claims to have received numerous automated text messages from the company without his consent.

January 12, 2023 A class action lawsuit has been filed against Healthy Access by a consumer who claims to have received unsolicited telemarking calls from the company despite his phone number being listed on the National Do Not Call Registry.

January 12, 2023 A class action claims that Sharp Healthcare, the foremost healthcare provider in San Diego and operator of Sharp.com, secretly transmits website visitors’ personal data to Facebook without consent.

January 12, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Hope College, a private liberal arts school in Michigan, of failing to protect students’ and employees’ personal data from a cyberattack in September 2022.

January 12, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses Retreat at Lancaster County and Retreat Behavioral Health LLC of failing to protect patients’ personal information from a data breach in July 2022.

January 10, 2023 A class action accuses Salesforce, Inc., a provider of customer relations management software, of wiretapping the online chat interactions of visitors to RiteAid.com without consent.

January 9, 2023 A class action claims that MemorialCare Medical Group, operator of MemorialCare.org, secretly transmits website visitors’ personal data to Facebook without consent.

January 9, 2023 A class action lawsuit has been filed against Chrysler Capital by a consumer who claims he received at least 50 robocalls from the company between May and December 2022.

January 9, 2023 A proposed class action claims HID Global Corporation unlawfully captured, disclosed, stored and profited from clients’ sensitive biometric data.

January 9, 2023 A class action alleges that Spine Media LLC, operator of parenting website Yourbump.com, transmits website visitors’ personal data to Facebook without consent.

January 9, 2023 A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Everest Global Services, Inc. of failing to protect customers’ personal data from a cyberattack in August 2022.

January 9, 2023 Gateway Rehab faces a class action that claims the medical center failed to protect patients’ personal health information from a data breach in June 2022.

January 6, 2023 A class action lawsuit accuses two California-based human resources management companies of failing to protect customers’ personal information from a 2022 cyberattack.

January 6, 2023 M.C. Dean, Inc. faces a class action that claims the building tech corporation failed to protect the personal information of network users from a 2022 cyberattack.

December 20, 2022 Kentucky's Taylor Regional Hospital faces a proposed class action over a data breach that reportedly lasted from November 2021 to January 2022.

December 14, 2022 A proposed class action claims Capital Home Mortgage has recorded telephone conversations with potential buyers without notice or consent.

December 13, 2022 Liberty Mutual faces a class action that claims the online communications of website visitors were tracked, recorded, and stored via spyware without consent.

December 8, 2022 Class action claims Avis Budget Group websites “intentionally intercepted” online visitors’ electronic communications by using “session replay” spyware.

December 8, 2022 Apple faces a proposed class action that alleges the company’s AirTags have “revolutionized the scope, breadth, and ease of location-based stalking.”

December 1, 2022 TransUnion faces a class action less than a month after disclosing that millions of customers’ files were accessed without authorization during a 2022 data breach.

November 29, 2022 Chegg faces a class action roughly a month after the FTC accused the company of “numerous cybersecurity lapses” that allegedly caused four data breaches between 2017 and 2020.

November 17, 2022 Choice Health Insurance faces a class action over its alleged failure to properly safeguard consumers’ sensitive information from a “foreseeable” May 2022 data breach.

November 17, 2022 The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health faces a class action after allegedly installing a contact-tracing app on more than one million Android users’ smartphones without their knowledge or consent.

November 14, 2022 A class action alleges Blackhawk Network is at fault for a “foreseeable” data breach that hit MyPrepaidCenter.com in September 2022, affecting thousands of consumers.

November 10, 2022 A class action alleges the U.S. Dept. of Education has enabled fraudsters to steal hundreds of millions of dollars and saddle innocent consumers with fraudulent student loan debt.

November 8, 2022 Community Loan Servicing faces a class action that alleges a data breach last year was caused by the company’s failure to implement reasonable cybersecurity procedures.

November 3, 2022 A class action alleges OakBend Medical Center maintained sensitive information in “a reckless manner” prior to a ransomware attack in September 2022.

November 1, 2022 The Savannah College of Art and Design faces a proposed class action in the wake of a “widespread” 2022 data breach.

November 1, 2022 A class action alleges the websites for each NFL team have unlawfully shared the personal identifying information of newsletter subscribers with Facebook without consent.

October 26, 2022 Major League Baseball’s media arm faces a class action that alleges it has illegally disclosed certain personal information of MLB.com subscribers to Meta Platforms (Facebook).

October 25, 2022 Two lawsuits claim Lovisa and Sephora have unlawfully recorded and shared the communications of consumers who use the chat feature on their websites.

October 7, 2022 Gifted Healthcare faces a proposed class action over a 2021 data breach during which the nationwide nurse staffing company’s email systems were hacked by unknown parties.

October 4, 2022 A class action alleges the Charles Schwab Corporation has unlawfully recorded and examined consumers' voiceprints without express written consent.

October 3, 2022 The company behind Bunk1.com faces a class action that alleges it has unlawfully collected, stored, used and disclosed the biometric information of some Illinois residents.

September 30, 2022 A class action says details of the video content viewed by ESPN.com and ESPN+ subscribers have been shared by the worldwide leader in sports with Meta Platforms without consent.

September 30, 2022 A class action alleges Chase Bank has used a Microsoft subsidiary’s technology to record and examine California customers’ voiceprints without their express consent or knowledge.

September 20, 2022 A class action alleges Meta injects hidden JavaScript code into external websites to work around an April 2021 Apple iOS privacy update.

September 14, 2022 A Calif. consumer has filed class actions against BJ’s, Kroger, AIG and Aflac over allegations that the companies have illegally tracked consumers who visit their websites.

September 13, 2022 Healthline Media faces a class action that alleges the website has illegally disclosed consumers’ personally identifiable information to Meta Platforms without consent.

September 9, 2022 A class action alleges mobile analytics firm Kochava has illegally collected and stored California consumers’ precise location data and then sold that information to its clients.

September 7, 2022 A class action alleges YouTube has run afoul of an Illinois biometric privacy law by capturing and storing scans of consumers’ faces by way of its “Face Blur” tool.

August 30, 2022 Practice Resources, LLC faces a class action after the medical billing services provider was targeted by cybercriminals during an April 2022 data breach.

August 30, 2022 Nelnet Servicing faces a class action over a 2022 data breach affecting more than 2.5 million people who’ve taken out student loans with OSLA or EdFinancial.

August 26, 2022 Applebee’s and others face a class action that alleges the restaurants’ AI-powered voice ordering systems unlawfully collect, use and store Illinois consumers’ biometric voiceprints.

August 25, 2022 Oracle America faces a class action that aims to take the worldwide data broker to task for allegedly surveilling and selling the personal information of hundreds of millions of people.