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A Tesla customer is taking the electric vehicle giant to court, in the first legal move since Tesla employees were revealed to be sharing private customer information.
The potential class action lawsuit was filed on April 7 by Tesla Model Y owner Henry Yeh, who took to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to demand accountability from Tesla toward owners of its autopilot-equipped cars.
“Like anyone would be, Mr Yeh was outraged at the idea that Tesla’s cameras can be used to violate his family’s privacy, which the California Constitution scrupulously protects,” Yeh’s attorney, Jack Fitzgerald, said in a statement to Reuters. Yeh wrote that he felt violated by the employees’ actions to share sensitive data taken from his car for the goal of “tasteless and tortious entertainment” and “the humiliation of those surreptitiously recorded.”
On April 7, Reuters reported on claims made by nine former Tesla employees that team members were sharing personal video footage and images taken from internal car cameras across employee channels. Messages shared included “intimate” scenes from customer homes and events on the road, which were disseminated by Tesla artificial intelligence trainers (known as “labelers”) as a form of company clout.
In the complaint, Yeh wrote that it is being filed “against Tesla on behalf of himself, similarly-situated class members, and the general public” in a possible class action from customers who leased or purchased a Tesla vehicle within the past four years.
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Prosecutors claim the 19-year-old Singh and 25-year-old Ceraolo are members of a hacking group called Vile, which often steals personal information from victims and then threatens to dox them online if they don’t receive a payment. While the DOJ doesn’t explicitly say which agency Singh and Ceraolo allegedly hacked into, it states the portal contains “detailed,…
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Out of an “abundance of caution,” Szpindor said, lawmakers may opt to freeze family credit at three major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and Transunion. The data breach has also affected Senate offices, according to an email sent to Senate offices Wednesday afternoon that said the Senate Sergeant at Arms was informed by law enforcement about a data breach. The notice said that the “data included the full names, date of enrollment, relationship (self, spouse, child), and email address, but no other Personally Identifiable Information (PII).”
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Sensitive information for members of Congress and their staff and family members has been exposed in a data breach, according to House leaders. The FBI was able to purchase leaked information from health insurance marketplace DC Health Link on the dark web, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote in a letter.
The data included the names of enrollees’ spouses, dependent children, social security numbers and home addresses, according to the letter. “This breach significantly increase the risk that members, staff and their families will experience identity theft, financial crimes and physical threats — already an ongoing concern,” it reads.
McCarthy and Jeffires said the FBI hadn’t yet determined the size and scope of the breach, though they indicated that the impact on “House customers could be extraordinary.” They noted that thousands of House members and employees from throughout the country have signed up for health insurance through DC Health Link since 2014.
.@SpeakerMcCarthy & Minority Leader Jeffries’ letter regarding the DC Health Link data breach: pic.twitter.com/v6H3VtdGX4
— Mark Bednar (@MarkBednar) March 9, 2023
“Fortunately, the individuals selling the information appear unaware of the high-level sensitivity of the confidential information in their possession, and its relation to Members of Congress,” the House leaders wrote. “This will certainly change as media reports more widely publicize the breach.”
“Currently, I do not know the size and scope of the breach, but have been informed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that account information and [personally identifiable information] of hundreds of Members and House staff were stolen,” Catherine L. Szpindor, the House of Representatives’ chief administrative officer, wrote in a letter to colleagues. Reports suggest that the data also includes details on senators and their staff, but that information was seemingly limited to their names and those of family members.
NEW: The Chief Administrative Officer of the House just emailed staffers/members to say there’s be a significant data breach at DC Health Link – the health insurance for House members and staff: @DailyCallerpic.twitter.com/XP9Ehg1r0p
— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) March 8, 2023
DC Health Link operator DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority said it has opened an investigation. “We are in the process of notifying impacted customers and will provide identity and credit monitoring services,” it told NBC News in a statement. The FBI has confirmed it’s aware of the incident, while Capitol Police are assisting the agency with its investigation.
A member of a dark web forum reportedly claimed this week that they had data on 170,000 DC Health Link customers and were willing to sell the information. They later said the information had been sold.
“We’re gonna continue to work on this issue in a bipartisan way, get to the bottom of what happened, figure out the implications of what has occurred,” Jeffries said at a press conference on Thursday. “And also we’re gonna need some real reassurance as to guardrails that are put in place to prevent this type of data breach from ever happening again.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/us-house-of-representatives-impacted-by-health-insurance-data-breach-212239163.html?src=rss