New York Consumer Law Blog

Stanford University is facing a new Fair Credit Reporting Act class action with, potentially, over a thousand class members. And it’s not the first time Stanford has faced these claims.  Notably, this isn’t the first time that Stanford has faced FCRA claims for the disclosures in their application forms. In 2015, Stanford faced precisely the same claims from another employee. Read more . . .

Yahoo must pay $85 million and provide free credit monitoring to 200 million people as part of a settlement of what is believed to be the biggest data breach ever.

The onetime internet giant, which is now owned by Verizon, has reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit over the 2013 and 2014 hacks. The company did not disclose the breach, which affected about 1 billion accounts, until 2016. The hacks exposed user names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, scrambled passwords and security questions and answers.

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