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In California, numerous local and federal lawsuits continue to pile up against Patelco Credit Union following a devastating cyber-attack that crippled the Dublin CA-based company’s online databases and left about half a million customers locked out of their accounts.  If the suits are successful, Patelco could be facing damage payouts of as much as $5 billion, which equals half of the assets managed by the company.

So far, at least six federal and four state lawsuits, some of which seek class-ac

In 2015, ISIS conducted a series of coordinated attacks around Paris that killed 130 people and wounded nearly 500 more. Two years later, 39 people were killed in an ISIS attack on an Istanbul nightclub during the early hours of New Year’s Day.  This week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pair of cases arising from those attacks.  The justices’ decisions in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh could reshape legal liability for some of the nation’s largest technology compan

A class action lawsuit was filed in California against TikTok, the Chinese social media platform developer, in November 2019.  The lawsuit claimed that the TikTok app was designed to “covertly tap into a massive array of private and personally-identifiable information” and used “non-standard encryption to conceal the transfer of such data from users’ devices to Defendants.”

The 46-page lawsuit text contained details about the data types that TikTok was collecting, including user-generated video