Lawyers for a transgender woman charged in a massive data breach at Capital One asked a judge this week to release her from federal custody, saying that for her to remain jailed with men is a serious threat to her ...

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A security breach at Capital One Financial, one of the nation’s largest issuers of credit cards, compromised the personal information of about 106 million people, and in some cases the hacker obtained Social Security and bank account numbers. It is ...

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Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people. The settlement with the U.S. Consumer Financial ...

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A Minnesota judge has endorsed a settlement in which Target Corp. will pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a massive data breach in 2013.

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I predict that within about two to three years, lawyers in most jurisdictions will communicate and collaborate with clients using some type of an encrypted network. A number of states, including Massachusetts and Nevada, already have passed laws or regulations ...

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Albert Gonzalez, the computer hacker charged with stealing 130 million credit and debit card numbers, will plead guilty to previous data-theft charges in Massachusetts and New York and forfeit assets, U.S. prosecutors said. Gonzalez faces 15 years to 25 years ...

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A federal lawsuit claims St. Louis-based Express Scripts should have done more to prevent a widely publicized data breach last year. According to the lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the company didn't use the most advanced information security technology it could and failed to take other steps to prevent the loss of its clients' confidential information. The lawsuit seeks class action status, claiming at least one million people were affected by the data breach.

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