I lost several thousand dollars this was not a one-day impact. This was an 11 to 12 days' worth of impact, and we are still feeling it. - John Kevranian, owner of Nuts for Candy and past president of the Broadway Burlingame Business Improvement District, describing the extended financial consequences of the power outages and road closures.
We have learned that an unauthorized third party acquired certain employee data. Upon discovery, we immediately activated our incident response protocols and launched a thorough investigation with the help of external cybersecurity experts. The unauthorized third party has stated that the stolen data has been deleted. We are monitoring and to date have not seen any evidence that the data has been published or otherwise misused.
One morning in January, Crystal Carrero went to her usual grocery store in Crown Heights. But when she went to pay, the cashier told her there was no money on her Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. "It was impossible," she remembered saying, because she hadn't used any of the funds, and she had recently checked the balance: $923, her monthly benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps low-income households afford groceries.
Kurt Knutsson recently reported on a ransomware attack in September that affected 377,082 individuals. Gulshan Management Services, Inc. is linked to Gulshan Enterprises, which operates around 150 Handi Plus and Handi Stop gas stations and convenience stores across Texas. Gulshan reported the incident to the Maine Attorney General's Office on January 6 and provided a copy of its notification letter to those affected.
The plaintiffs are represented by Hagens Berman, a consumer protection law firm that was also involved in similar litigation against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors. In a press release announcing the action, the law firm said that Rocket including its affiliates Rocket Mortgage, Amrock Holdings and Rocket Homes Real Estate, which were also named as defendants conspired to pressure clients to use Rocket's mortgage company to finance their purchase.
For Gmail users, there is an automatic opt-in that may allow Google access to your emailed data (think: your personal and work messages, your attachments) "to train AI models," cybersecurity experts allege. If you don't want this information shared, you need to adjust your settings. In the race for companies to get an ROI on AI, we're already seeing language learning models running out of new, human-generated data to train on.
In addition to accusations of labor and human rights violations on the coffee farms that Starbucks partners with, the lawsuit also alleges that testing has found toxic substances in its Decaf House Blend medium roast coffee. The substances supposedly include methylene chloride, benzene, and toluene. The lawsuit says the presence of these chemicals violates Starbuck's labels of "100% Arabica coffee." More importantly, each are considered volatile organic compounds and are unsafe for human consumption at the levels allegedly detected.
Meta Platforms Inc. convinced a federal appeals court to certify a question about whether its terms of service and community standards created an obligation for the company to combat scam advertisements. Whether the terms of service and community standards impose a legally enforceable obligation on Meta is a question with substantial grounds for differing opinions, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to pause immigration arrests at courthouses across Northern California and in Pacific islands, a ruling that could still be appealed by the Trump administration. Since May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested hundreds of people at routine check-ins and court hearings in San Francisco, Concord, and other immigration courthouses across the state and country.
The case may have broad impact on product marketing strategies in the U.S. coffee industry, which relies on imports of green coffee from high-elevation countries within the tropics. In a complaint filed Nov. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, California resident Justin Bakker and New York resident Noah Lundgren accuse Black Rifle Coffee Company LLC and parent company, BRC Inc., of deceptive "Made in USA" advertising.
"Every month, under Spotify's watchful eye, billions of fraudulent streams are generated from fake, illegitimate, and/or illegal methods [like bots]," the complaint reads. "This mass-scale fraudulent streaming causes massive financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, producers, and other rightsholders whose proportional share is decreased as a result of fraudulent stream inflation on Spotify's platform." Spotify pays streaming royalties based on an artist's share of total streams.
Borrowers have added new details in an amended complaint alleging that loanDepot engaged in a sophisticated, years-long scheme to steer customers into higher-rate loans to inflate its performance ahead of its 2021 initial public offering (IPO). The class-action lawsuit, filed in July in Maryland, claims the lender required loan officers (LOs) who couldn't push higher-cost loans to transfer borrowers to internal loan consultants (ILC).
A Seattle law firm specializing in large class-action litigation claims Zillow illegally tricks homebuyers into working with Zillow agents forced to split their commission with the real estate listings giant. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, a man who bought a home in Portland with a Zillow agent claims the Seattle-based company, which is a licensed brokerage in several states, aimed to defraud him and other homebuyers.
Bay Area immigrant rights advocates have filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to end its controversial immigration courthouse arrests and stop federal officers from detaining people for days in a San Francisco holding facility not meant for overnight use. The unprecedented tactic has triggered heated protests, with some activists attempting to block arrests and getting into clashes with ICE officers.
Any US Facebook user who had an active account between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, was eligible to file a claim, even if they have deleted the account. The deadline to file was August 25, 2023. Almost 29 million claims were filed and about 18 million were validated as of September 2023, according to Meta's response in a 2024 legal document.
On Friday, a proposed class action was filed in Washington federal court against Amazon over a "bait and switch" in which the company allegedly misleads consumers into believing they've purchased content when they're only getting a license to watch, which can be revoked at any time....Lisa Reingold, who filed the lawsuit, says she bought Bella and the Bulldogs - Volume 4 on Amazon in May for $20.79 but soon lost access to the title.
Snap Inc., the social media giant known for its disappearing messages and playful filters, is now facing serious allegations from its investors. A class action lawsuit has been filed against the company, accusing it of misleading shareholders about its advertising revenue growth. Between April 29 and August 5, 2025, Snap allegedly painted an overly optimistic picture of its financial health, while concealing a significant downturn in its advertising revenue growth rate.
More than two years after leaving the company, some former Twitter employees may finally receive their severance pay. Elon Musk's X is tentatively settling a class action lawsuit filed by workers who were let go soon after he purchased Twitter. This news comes in the form of a court filing where both parties asked the court to delay an upcoming hearing so that they could work out a deal.
One of the most disappointing seats on a Boeing 737 is central to a lawsuit filed in a federal court in San Francisco this week. A San Francisco man joined the class action suit against United Airlines Tuesday, alleging the airline charged him extra for a window seat that was actually next to a wall. Marc Brenman of San Francisco, along with Aviva Copaken of Los Angeles, filed the complaint alleging that United "misleads its customers by selling 'window' seats without windows."
The ultra-luxurious Santa Monica Proper hotel has been accused of failing to pay its employees minimum wage and, in some cases, paying them less per hour than it charges guests for a bowl of hummus.
Winning $20,000 from a DoubleDown Casino lawsuit highlighted the risks of virtual gambling and how easy it is to make impulsive purchases on free-to-play sites.
