Companies Behaving Badly

On June 6, Target issued a nationwide recall of two varieties of its Up & Up store-brand baby wipes after the FDA confirmed potential contamination with bacteria capable of causing…

Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit accusing UnitedHealthcare of manipulating health assessments to fraudulently extract over $100 million from the state’s Medicaid program. The alleged scheme involved inflating seniors’ health conditions…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company knowingly prioritized profits over user safety in the AI “arms race.” The complaint…

Hackers breached 23andMe accounts and exposed genetic data from 6.9 million users who never had weak passwords. The company paid a $400,000 cryptocurrency ransom while publicly downplaying the breach. If…

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Meta’s appeal, allowing Vermont’s lawsuit alleging Instagram was designed to addict teens to proceed. Meta argued Vermont courts had no jurisdiction since Instagram…

Insurance giant Liberty Mutual failed to protect the personal information of at least 15,630 customers after the Everest Group ransomware gang breached its systems in April 2024. The stolen data…

The FDA announced it will assess four phthalates used in plastic food packaging as a group — chemicals that research shows can leach into food and disrupt hormones. This reverses…

A rural Kentucky school district forced Meta to settle the first bellwether case testing whether social media companies will pay for teen mental health harm. The Breathitt County case was…