This category is for the improper handling of customer or employee data can lead to breaches, exposing sensitive information and violating privacy laws.
TL;DR A hacker broke into a Rialto Markets employee’s email and sat there, undetected, for over three months, reading the Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and home addresses of 4,400+ customers. While inside that email account, the hacker then…
Investigative Report • Health Privacy • Class Action Filed August 13, 2025 Your Heart Rate. Your Stress. Your Pregnancy. Sold. WHOOP promised your most intimate physiological data was “always protected.” A federal class action lawsuit says the company secretly embedded…
Surveillance Tech / Domestic Abuse / FTC Enforcement SpyFone Built a Business on Stalking and Domestic Abuse Source: FTC Complaint — Docket C-4756 — Issued December 20, 2021 TL;DR A company called SpyFone (operating as Support King, LLC) sold secret…
Data Security Failure Eight Years. 1,624 Accounts. $150,000 Slap. EvilCorporations.com • AWC No. 2021073472601 • 7 min read TL;DR For eight years (January 2014 through March 2022), Wells Fargo failed to cut off data access for former employees when they…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP & Its Impact on Thousands of Betrayed Clients and Employees TLDR: A “powerhouse” New York law firm, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, stands accused of profound corporate negligence after a massive…
Introduction: The Anatomy of a Betrayal In July 2025, Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest financial services firms, became the epicenter of a catastrophic data breach that compromised the personal and…
In 2024, AT&T, a titan of the telecommunications industry, was compelled to confront the consequences of two colossal data security failures that compromised the information of nearly 200 million accounts. The ensuing legal firestorm, culminating in a $177 million class-action…
TL;DR Specialty Networks and Prime Imaging left the health records of more than 400,000 patients unencrypted, and hackers walked right through their front door on December 11, 2023. The stolen data includes Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications, driver’s license numbers,…
Worker Privacy • Biometric Data • Illinois Supreme Court Your Fingerprint. Their Profit. Zero Permission. White Castle scanned workers’ fingerprints hundreds of times without consent, racked up what could be $17 billion in legal exposure, and then asked a court…
In late July and early August of 2025, the woman-centric dating safety app ‘Tea’ became the epicenter of a catastrophic and entirely preventable data breach, exposing the deepest secrets and identities of its user base. Marketed as a digital sanctuary…