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Lawsuit seek payout for guests, gamblers after hack at Caesars Entertainment

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CAMDEN — Patrons of Caesars Entertainment properties in Atlantic City and elsewhere are seeking damages in a class action lawsuit in federal court here.

The suit, filed by a Woodbury attorney, alleges damages of more than $5 million for gamblers and guests affected when hackers accessed customers’ private information in Caesars’ computer system in September.

The Nevada-based firm’s 51 properties include Caesars, Harrah’s and Tropicana casino-hotels in Atlantic City.

The suit seeks court approval to represent all people whose personal identification information was compromised in the data breach.

What is known about the hack at Caesars Entertainment?

Caesars disclosed the hack in a Sept. 14 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The intrusion, detected on Sept. 7, was “a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor used by the company,” the fling said.

It said the hacker obtained a copy of “among other data, our loyalty program database” for a “significant number” of its loyalty club members.

That data included “driver’s license numbers and/or social security numbers,” said the filing.

It reported no evidence “to date” that the hacker had acquired customers’ password or their password/bank account information.

Class action lawsuits in Camden federal court seek damages for patrons of Caesars Entertainment properties in Atlantic City and elsewhere.Class action lawsuits in Camden federal court seek damages for patrons of Caesars Entertainment properties in Atlantic City and elsewhere.

Class action lawsuits in Camden federal court seek damages for patrons of Caesars Entertainment properties in Atlantic City and elsewhere.

Caesars said it had reported the incident to law enforcement and that the company was conducting its own investigation.

What does the lawsuit say about the Caesars hack?

The lawsuit blames the hack on Scattered Spider, a group that allegedly tricks computer users into disclosing sensitive information, then extorts a payment to keep the data private.

Caesars “reportedly” paid about $15 million to placate the hackers, according to a separate lawsuit filed in October on behalf of Caesars’ loyalty club members.

That suit was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice on Nov. 8, meaning it could be filed again.

Stanley King, the attorney pursuing the class action suit, claims Caesars was negligent in protecting its customers and in responding to the hack.

Caesars has offered credit-monitoring services to members of its…

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Bepanted shovel-toting farmer wins privacy payout from France TV • The Register

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A French farmer who was filmed setting about bird conservationists with a shovel while in his underpants has won damages from a TV company that filmed the incident for violating his privacy.

The set-to originally occurred back in 2015, when a French bird conservation group called the Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO, or Bird Protection League in English) invited a group of journalists to accompany them as they investigated a farm in Audon in southwestern France for bird traps.

Bird trapping, in which songbirds are trapped using various techniques and later eaten, is mostly forbidden in France, but it is still practised in many regions either illegally or via legal exemptions issued for supposed small-scale trapping.

According to thelocal.fr, the group duly sneaked on to the farm and began removing what they claimed were illegal traps set for finches from an area planted with corn. They were then confronted by two men, including furious farmer Jean-Marc Dutouya, who appeared wearing just a blue T-shirt and a pair of blue striped underpants and wielding a long-handled shovel like a pike.

A fracas duly ensued between the bird enthusiasts and the farmers in which a number of LPO members alleged they were assaulted, Dutouya’s octogenarian mother was reportedly shoved, and four vehicles had their tyres slashed.

For his part in the bepanted brouhaha, according to the Agence France-Presse, Dutouya was fined €400 in 2018 for violence with a weapon.

But footage of the scuffle shot by the journalists present went viral on the internet and Dutouya and his stripy pants became a sensation on Francophone Twitter, whose users referred to the incident using the hashtag #Slipgate (which translates to #Underpantsgate).

The livid Frenchman became the unwitting hero of countless memes in which his underwear-clad image – clipped from a photograph of the confrontation published by the Agence France-Presse agency – was…

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Android Security Reward program increases top payout to $1.5 million and adds more categories – Android Police

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  1. Android Security Reward program increases top payout to $ 1.5 million and adds more categories  Android Police
  2. Google really wants you to hack the Pixel’s Titan M security chip  The Verge
  3. Google Adds $ 1.5 Million Top Reward to Android Bug Bounty Program  BleepingComputer
  4. Google puts million dollar awards on Android bug bounty table  iTnews
  5. Google flaw allowed hackers to access users’ cameras on Android phones  The Independent
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