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2.5KLawsuits Pile Up For Cap One, Amazon Post Hack
Capital One and Amazon Web Services are being sued by customers due to the massive hack that impacted more than 106 million...
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2.1KKik Accuses SEC Of ‘Twisting Facts’ In Crypto Lawsuit
Canadian chat app Kik has filed an answer to a lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claiming that the company’s...
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1.9KeBay Files Suit Against Amazon For Soliciting Sellers
Online commerce platform eBay has filed a lawsuit against Amazon claiming the eCommerce giant was trying to steal its sellers through eBay’s...
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1.8KChinese Banks Held In Contempt By US
An appeals court in the U.S. has upheld the decision by a lower court to hold three Chinese banks in contempt for...
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2.6KIndia’s Lawmakers Recommend Crypto Ban
A panel of lawmakers in India prepared a report about cryptocurrency use in the country and is recommending a ban on all...
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2.5KAmazon Threatens Surescripts Over Blocking PillPack Patient Data Access
Amazon’s pharmacy arm PillPack could soon be blocked from accessing patients’ histories, pitting the online giant against Surescripts, an electronic prescribing company...
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1.8KCannabis Law Reform Gains Momentum In Congress
In a first-ever congressional hearing on marijuana law reform, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security convened July 10...
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1.5KEU Court Sets Date To Rule On Privacy Case Against Facebook
The latest twist in what could very well be a landmark ruling is set to unfold Dec. 12, when Europe’s top court...
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2.1KCourts Say Amazon Liable For Third-Party Seller Missteps
An appeals court has ruled that Amazon can be held liable for third-party sales on its site, according to reports. Amazon lets...
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2.5KEquifax’s Ex-CIO Will Do Time For Insider Trading
The United States Department of Justice has announced that Jun Ying, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Equifax U.S. Information Solutions,...
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1.3KWalmart Sued By JetBlue For Jetblack Name
To force the world’s biggest retailer to stop using the Jetblack name for its personal shopping service, JetBlue Airways has sued Walmart...
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1.3KHuawei Sues US Over Detained Telecom Equipment
Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Commerce Department over telecommunications equipment. The lawsuit centers on whether...
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2.9KBrazil Bribery Charges Cost Walmart $282M
Walmart will pay a total of $282 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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2.3KExpedia Sued By Nustay Over Antitrust Claims
Online travel booking startup Nustay has filed a complaint with the European Union’s antitrust regulator, the European Commission, accusing Expedia Group and...
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1.5KState AGs Sue To Block Sprint/T-Mobile Merger
Ten or more state attorneys general are reportedly gearing up to jointly file suit to block the $26 billion merger of Sprint...
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1.6KAirbnb Is Cooperating With A Subpoena From NYC
Airbnb is reportedly complying with a New York City subpoena that wants information about some of its listings, according to reports. The...
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3.0KWalmart, Wearables And The Murky Future For Marketplaces In India
While it might not look like much at first glance, an escalating legal spat between Walmart-owned, Indian eCommerce marketplace Flipkart and a...
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2.4KUS Judge: Facebook May Have Improperly Handled Data Breaches
Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that there’s a “credible basis” to infer that Facebook may have...
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1.2KStudent Loan Scammer Settles With FTC For $11M
The leader of a student loan debt relief scheme has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) charges that he...
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2.7KFirst American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
First American Financial Corp., the title insurance company that exposed the data on hundreds of millions of mortgages dating as far back...
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2.6KHuawei Files Motion To Toss Out Federal Ban
Huawei, the Chinese telecom company that landed on a blacklist in the U.S., has filed a motion in U.S. court aiming to...
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3.0KBank of Chicago CEO Indicted For Bribing Manafort
Stephen Calk, the founder of the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, a mortgage lender and a former economic adviser to President Trump’s...
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1.9KCongress Supports Facial Recognition Regulation
Members of Congress supported a plan to draft legislation aimed at the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement on Wednesday...
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3.2KAllied Wallet Settles With FTC Over Fraudulent Payment Allegations
Payment company Allied Wallet and its owner, Ahmad Khawaja, as well as two officers, Mohammad Diab and Amy Rountree, have settled with...
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2.0KAmazon Prevails In Domain Name Fight With LATAM
Amazon has won a lengthy fight against eight Latin American countries for the provisional ability to use the .amazon domain name, according...
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2.5KLyft Gets Hit With Class-Action Investor Lawsuit
Lyft’s stock inched lower in trading Monday (May 20) after investors filed a class action lawsuit against the ride-hailing startup. According to...
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3.0KCFPB Sues Debt-Collection Agency Over Deception Allegations
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Friday (May 17) that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court against a debt-collection agency...
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2.0KPew Blasts CFPB Payday Lending Proposal
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wades through the public comments about rules regarding payday lending, The Pew Charitable Trusts has...
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3.3KBattle Over Payday Lending Shifts To Public Comments
The battle over payday lending — specifically, how tough U.S. federal rule will be in governing the industry — is heating up as an...
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1.9KAutonomy’s Ex-CFO Gets Five Years For Accounting Fraud
The former CFO of Autonomy has been sentenced to five years in prison for accounting fraud. Sushovan Hussain was convicted on 16...
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4.3KSupremes Greenlight Consumer Apple App Store Lawsuit
Apple was dealt a blow on Monday (May 13) after the Supreme Court ruled that an antitrust lawsuit over its App Store...
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2.4KChinese National Charged In Anthem Data Breach
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Chinese national for his alleged involvement in the 2015 data breach at health insurance company Anthem, which...
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4.2KB2B Financing Firm FreightRover Reportedly Impacted By Celadon Fraud Scam
It hasn’t exactly been the best of times lately for FreightRover, at least not when it comes to legal drama and company...
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2.2KFormer Danske Chief Charged In Money Laundering Scandal
Danish prosecutors have charged the former chief executive of Danske Bank over his involvement in one of the world’s largest money laundering scandals....
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3.2KCFPB Sues Credit Repair Firms Over Upfront Fees
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a lawsuit against a credit repair firm, its subsidiaries and associates for asking customers...
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2.5KCredit Union Sues Fiserv Over ‘Baffling’ Security Lapses
Bessemer System Federal Credit Union, a financial organization in Pennsylvania, is suing financial technology company Fiserv Solutions over what it calls rampant...
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2.8KFormer Heartland CEO Agrees To $250K SEC Fine
To settle charges of insider trading, the ex-chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems Inc. agreed to pay a civil fine of $250,628....
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6.3KZillow Sues Competitor Compass Over IP Theft
Zillow has filed two lawsuits against Compass, accusing its rival of stealing Seattle-based Zillow’s intellectual property, as well as hiring employees who violated...
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3.9KInvestors Sue Lyft Over Overhyped IPO
Lyft is being sued by some investors who say the company exaggerated its market position during its IPO in March, which they...
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4.1KApple’s Settlement With Qualcomm May Have Cost As Much As $6 Billion
The legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm is over, and UBS is estimating the iPhone maker paid Qualcomm in the neighborhood of...
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2.4KLampert Faces Suit From Sears Holdings Corp
In the wake of the retailer’s bankruptcy, Sears Holdings Corp. has filed a lawsuit against former CEO Eddie Lampert, along with ESL...
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3.7KMarket Regulator In Germany Files Complaint Alleging Wirecard Short Sale
A German markets regulator has filed a complaint with prosecutors alleging that shares of Wirecard were manipulated by someone who potentially had...
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4.7KUK Lawsuit Against Mastercard Gains Court Support
A consumer lawsuit against Mastercard in the U.K. got approval to move forward after a court reversed a ruling by the Competition...
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4.0KFTC Fines Avant $3.85M For Customer Deception
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Monday (April 15) a $3.85 million settlement with online lender Avant over a lawsuit alleging the firm...
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3.6KLaw Enforcement Use Of Google Search Warrants Increasing
Law enforcement agencies around the country are increasingly going after search warrants to obtain information from Google, based on the location data...
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3.0KCybercriminals Charged With Money Laundering, Wire Fraud
A federal jury has convicted two Romanian cybercriminals of infecting computers with malware in order to steal credit card and other information...
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4.2KCollege Admissions Scandal Now Alleges Money Laundering
Federal prosecutors have hit actress Lori Loughlin, her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents with additional charges related to the college...
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3.8KMoviePass Rival Sinemia Faces Complaints, Lawsuit
Sinemia, a subscription service similar to MoviePass, has been struggling with customer complaints and a class-action lawsuit over the way it treats...
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3.7KLyft Threatens To Sue Over Alleged Short Selling
Lyft is threatening to sue Morgan Stanley over allegations it supported short selling for investors subject to lock-up agreements. According to CNBC,...
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4.4KMoneyGram, Western Union Sued Over Downed Passenger Plane
Four financial institutions are being sued over suspected ties to terrorists who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014, according to...
