Western Digital continues to market defective SanDisk Extreme and Extreme Pro portable solid-state drives (SSDs), despite those defects having caused some drives to delete data without warning and leaving them “entirely unreadable,” alleged an Aug. 29 fraud class action in San Jose County Superior Court that Western Digital and SanDisk removed Tuesday (docket 5:23-cv-05603) to U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
SolarWinds is “disappointed by the SEC’s unfounded charges related to a Russian cyberattack on an American company," and it's "deeply concerned this action will put our national security at risk,” emailed a spokesperson Tuesday. The SEC's 10-count lawsuit alleged SolarWinds and Timothy Brown, its chief information security officer, were guilty of Securities and Exchange Act violations.
Biotechnology company 23andMe failed to state in a notice of a data breach whether it successfully contained or ended the cybersecurity threat, said a class action (docket 3:23-cv-05565) Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The company, which maps individual genomes of customers to create reports on subjects’ ancestry and genetic health risks, also fails to state how the breach occurred, the complaint said.
Defendants Pathward National Association and Progress Software Corp. (PSC) “failed to adequately protect” or “to even encrypt” plaintiffs Michelle Cantrell and Tracy Alcott’s personally identifiable information (PII), alleged a negligence class action (docket 1:23-cv-12554) Friday in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.
At various times from March 2021 to April, the defendants in a fraud lawsuit marketed, distributed and sold counterfeit Nintendo products on Amazon.com using Nintendo’s trademarks, without authorization, alleged co-plaintiffs Amazon and Nintendo in a complaint Friday (docket 2:23-cv-01641) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Defendants Does 1-10 are currently unknown to the plaintiffs, said the complaint.
Software development kits (SDKs) in NBC apps allow app and website developers to “surreptitiously collect and transmit data to third parties,” said a privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-09433) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Food 4 Less, part of the Ralphs and Kroger supermarket chains, unlawfully collects, uses and retains personal biometric identifiers of employees in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleged a complaint (docket 1:23-cv-15345) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.
LG Electronics USA and its Mobilecomm subsidiary owe marketing services company GS Line (GSL) “several million dollars” for unpaid or underpaid invoices spanning several years, alleged a fraud lawsuit (docket 2:23-cv-21528) Thursday in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.
The FTC has failed to state a valid claim that Amazon uses unfair competitive methods for enabling subscriptions and cancellations, said the Computer & Communications Industry Association, NetChoice and the Chamber of Progress in their motion for leave Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00932) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle to file an amicus brief in support of Amazon’s motion to dismiss. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) also sought leave Wednesday to file amicus briefs in support of Amazon’s motion.
If Iqvia’s purchase of Propel Media (PMI) goes through, the acquisition would “eliminate intense head-to-head competition” between Iqvia’s Lasso division and PMI’s DeepIntent healthcare professional (HCP) programmatic advertising platform, said the FTC’s redacted memorandum of law Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-06188) in support of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block the acquisition on antitrust grounds.