Equifax reveals hack that likely exposed data of 143 million customers
(Reuters) - Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in what could be one of the largest data breaches in the United States.
The company’s shares fell nearly 19 percent in after-market...
Novo Nordisk settles U.S. probe over diabetes drug for nearly $58.7 million
(Reuters) - Novo Nordisk will pay nearly $58.7 million to resolve claims the drugmaker’s sales staff downplayed the importance of U.S. Food and Drug Administration-mandated warnings about the cancer risks of its diabetes medication Victoza.
The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday’s settlement would resolve claims Novo Nordisk supplied its sales representatives with information to give...
Drug overdose deaths skyrocketed in 2016 — and traditional opioid painkillers weren’t the cause
The federal government just put out new statistics for drug overdose deaths in 2016 — and they are very, very grim.
The preliminary figures from the National Center for Health Statistics suggest that there were more than 64,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016. And in a shocking — but not quite surprising — reveal, synthetic...
Honda To Pay $484M To Reimburse Some Drivers For Takata Airbag Recall Costs
Honda must pay more than $484 million to resolve customers’ financial losses related to vehicles equipped with shrapnel-shooting airbags from Takata and step up its efforts to ensure the dangerous safety devices are repaired.
The settlement, which must still be approved by a judge, resolves owners’ claims of economic damages suffered as a result of...
Wells Fargo Accounts Settlement in Question as Victims Swell
Wells Fargo & Co.’s disclosure Thursday that employees may have opened significantly more unauthorized accounts than previously stated could jeopardize a $142 million class-action settlement with customers that won preliminary approval from a judge in July.
The scandal that helped hasten the lawsuit came to light almost a year ago, after regulators slapped Wells...
Yahoo must face litigation by data breach victims: U.S. judge
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Yahoo must face nationwide litigation brought on behalf of well over 1 billion users who said their personal information was compromised in three massive data breaches.
Wednesday night’s decision from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, was a setback for efforts by Verizon Communications Inc, which...
The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Years
Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. It’s a staggering rise of more than 22 percent over the 52,404 drug deaths recorded the previous year — and even higher than The New York Times’s...
Backyard Chickens Carry a Hidden Risk: Salmonella
Pet chicks and ducklings seem unlikely culprits in a serious public health problem. But they’re responsible for infecting more than 900 people with salmonella this year — the highest number to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency is investigating multistate outbreaks of salmonella infections linked to people who keep...
Wells Fargo review finds 1.4M more potentially unauthorized accounts
Wells Fargo's fake accounts scandal expanded Thursday with the disclosure of roughly 1.4 million more potentially unauthorized accounts than the bank originally estimated when the embarrassing episode emerged nearly a year ago.
The announcement confirmed Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan's Aug. 22 forecast that the investigation likely would confirm wider consumer damage from the scandal...
FDA Recalls 465,000 Pacemakers on Hacking Fears
The Food and Drug Administration has recalled 465,000 pacemakers after discovering security vulnerabilities that could let hackers reprogram the devices, potentially putting patient lives at risk.
Several devices from Abbott (formerly known as St. Jude Medical) are included in the recall, which the FDA says is intended as a "corrective action", including the Accent,...
