Payments Start In $725M Facebook Settlement: How Much You Could Get
If you had a Facebook account from 2007 to 2022, you may soon see money from a massive class action settlement.
Payments have begun in Facebook's $725 million privacy settlement. Every Facebook user in the US between Thursday, May 24, 2007, and Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, was eligible for payouts.
The case stems from Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm tied to far-right strategist Steve Bannon, the Associated Press reported. Cambridge Analytica harvested data from millions of Facebook users to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election win.
In December 2022, Me…
York County Officer Runs Background Checks On 18 Women, Then Messages Them On Facebook: PSP
A York County cop used a national law enforcement database to run unauthorized background checks on women — and then slid into their DMs, Pennsylvania State Police revealed in a release issued Wednesday, June 11.
Sean David Lake, 32, of Dover, allegedly made 32 illegal queries through the Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network (CLEAN) between October 2022 and October 2024 — while working for multiple agencies, including the PA Fish and Boat Commission, Lower Windsor PD, and most recently York County Regional Police, according to an affidavit obtained by Daily Voice.
Investigators s…
NJ Water Company Pauses Billing After Cyberattack
A water utility company based in Camden said it is pausing billing in the wake of a cyberattack on Thursday, Oct. 3.
American Water serves 2.8 million people in the Garden State, providing water to municipalities in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Union and Warren counties.
"American Water learned of unauthorized activity in our computer networks and systems," the company said in a release. "This activity has since been determined to be the result of a cybersecurity incident. In an effort to protect our …
