Despite AT&T’s assertion in 2021 that a hacked database containing the personally identifiable information (PII) of 70 million AT&T customers “does not appear to have come from our systems,” three years later “the same customer data from 2021 is no longer just for sale,” but it also “has been fully exposed on the Dark Web,” alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-01414) in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein for Southern New York in Manhattan denied the motion of 14 plaintiff authors in the first-filed copyright infringement suit against OpenAI in the Northern District of California to intervene in the four infringement actions against OpenAI and Microsoft filed subsequently in New York, said his signed opinion and order Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00084).
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An organization’s information security team, led by its chief information security officer, “stands on the front lines against cyberattacks,” said roughly four dozen current and former CISOs in an amicus brief Friday (docket 1:23-cv-09518) at the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in support of SolarWinds’ motion to dismiss the SEC’s amended securities fraud complaint (see 2403250039).
Despite assuring a customer that she wouldn’t be charged for service or hardware after a FiOS installation wasn’t successful, Verizon billed her and then reported her account as delinquent to credit reporting agencies (CRAs) Experian, TransUnion and Equifax, alleged plaintiff Ayesha Gordon in a Fair Credit Reporting Act complaint (docket 1:24-cv-00486) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria.
The FCC violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it amended rules incorporating four new equipment testing standards, and did so without the proper notice and comment protocol, alleged iFixit, Public Resource and Make Community in the opening brief Wednesday (23-1311) of their petition for review at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The opening brief asks that the court remand the rules to the FCC for what the three organizations contend should be a proper rulemaking (see 2311090002).
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The defendants in a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Amazon over a scheme to sell counterfeit Amazon Fire TV remotes in its store are in default, and the prerequisites for default judgment have been met, said Amazon’s ex parte motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01060) for default judgment and permanent injunction against Li Qiang, Shenzhen Yinxi Electronic Commerce and “John Doe” defendants in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
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Internet Archive's theory that its controlled digital lending (CDL) program is protected by fair use under the Copyright Act would have “devastating consequences” for the music, movie and news media industries if the 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court reversed a lower court's decision, said an amicus brief Friday (docket 23-1260) from the Recording Industry Association of America, National Music Publishers’ Association, Motion Picture Association and the News/Media Alliance.