After a series of high-profile incidents in which hackers gained access to live footage of Ring security cameras inside people’s homes, the company blamed consumers for reusing old passwords. Two plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit accusing the company of negligence and invasion of privacy say that’s not the issue — instead, they say their passwords were unique […]
After a series of Ring camera hacks, the Amazon-owned security company has claimed that any intrusions into its customers’ cameras or accounts were perpetrated by hackers who obtained login credentials from hacking forums or the dark web, not from the company’s database. Hassan Zavareei, a partner at Tycko & Zavareei LLP, a firm specializing in class-action […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A Desoto County woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Ring after she says hackers gained access to a camera in her daughter’s bedroom. Ashley LeMay first spoke with WMC Action News 5 in early December. She says the camera was only up for a few days before someone hacked the […]
Capital One and the Microsoft-owned GitHub are facing a class action lawsuit over allegations of not doing enough to protect the personal information of more than 100 million bank customers who were affected by a massive data breach. “This is the kind of the result of negligence from two companies who are sophisticated and should’ve […]
Capital One and GitHub have been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the recent data breach that resulted in the data of over 100 million Capital One customers and credit card applicants being exposed. The law firm Tycko & Zavareei LLP filed the lawsuit on Thursday, arguing that GitHub and Capital One demonstrated negligence in […]
Following the aftermath of Capital One breach happened earlier this week, the firms involved in the incident, in one way or the other way, are in trouble. Reportedly, a private law firm TYCKO & ZAVAREEI LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit against the firms on behalf of the 100 million individuals affected in the breach. […]
Law firm Tycko & Zavareei LLP filed the 28-page lawsuit in California’s federal district court [PDF] on Thursday on behalf of plaintiffs Seth Zielicke and Aimee Aballo. The plaintiffs claim Capital One and GitHub of failing to protect customers’ personal information and said that both companies need to be held responsible for their role in the data breach. They […]
Lawfirm Tycko & Zavareei LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit against source-code hosting site GitHub for its link to a massive Capital One hack, alleging the company is guilty of negligence, negligence per se, violation of the federal Wiretap Act and violation of the California civil code. The suit also levies charges against Capital One. [Read more…]
The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules is considering the first major amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) since it was adopted in 1970. The amended rule as currently proposed would require parties to meet and confer “about the number and description of the matters for examination and the identity of each […]
Estranged former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman on Monday joined a proposed collective-action lawsuit against President Donald Trump alleging that he discriminates against women who work for him. [Read more…]
