Author: Errica Jensen

Unauthorized access to client data held by one of Africa’s biggest financial institutions occurred at some point in the weeks preceding Standard Bank’s public statement on March 23, 2026. The bank’s Johannesburg headquarters, a glass-and-steel structure on Simmonds Street in Selby that exudes the kind of subdued institutional confidence that big banks favor, continued to function. Cash was still being dispensed by the ATMs. The application continued to function. However, beneath that outward normalcy, data from an unidentified number of clients had already been transferred to an inappropriate location.The first statement from Standard Bank was measured and cautious. Systems that…

Paying a bill, believing you know the total, and then seeing an unexpected charge appear on the final screen before you hit confirm can be particularly frustrating. It happens quickly. Most people probably just accept it and move on, especially those who use their phones to pay for utilities in between other tasks. Two women from Indiana chose not to. Amy Burke and Angelia McGlade filed a class action lawsuit against PayGov.US LLC in Indianapolis’ Marion Superior Court on November 14, 2025, claiming that the payment processor had been routinely charging customers hidden convenience fees when they paid their utility…

The Justice family filed a civil lawsuit in Greenbrier County Circuit Court late on a Sunday night in April at 11:12 p.m. You can infer something about their sense of urgency from the timing—after eleven at night on a weekend. TRT Holdings and its owner, Dallas billionaire Robert Rowling, were named in the lawsuit, which accused them of trying to take over The Greenbrier resort using what the family put simply as “unlawful and deceptive means.” The word “snatch” has special significance for a property as historically significant as The Greenbrier, a resort that has hosted every American president since…

When an eight-month investigation into Super Ego Holding was broadcast on 60 Minutes on a Sunday night in April 2026, the trucking community—or at least the portion of it that already suspected something was seriously wrong—finally saw the story reach a wider audience. Industry insiders weren’t particularly surprised by the segment. Since August 2022, a class action lawsuit has been pending in the courts. For years, Overdrive magazine had covered the network. However, a primetime CBS broadcast differs from a trade publication, and by Monday morning, Super Ego Holding was all over the place. Serbian businessman Aleksandar Mimic founded Super…

Before someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house, his spring was already difficult. Early in April 2026, the 40-year-old CEO of OpenAI was juggling two lawsuits, one from Elon Musk and the other from his own sister, while getting ready for a federal trial that would start in Oakland later this month. Then came word that a man from Texas had been charged with attempted murder and attempted arson after attacking Altman’s house with a document that authorities claimed was anti-AI. There are serious accusations against that man. Strangely enough, though, the sound of everything else whirling around…

Seeing two of the most financially troubled companies in Britain drag each other into court has an almost grimly poetic quality. TalkTalk, the broadband provider currently in debt of less than £1.4 billion, is the target of a lawsuit filed by OVO Energy, a Bristol-based energy supplier that has been frantically trying for months to raise £300 million just to stay solvent. Neither business is in a strong position. And yet here they are, disputing the conditions of an agreement made four years ago that, in retrospect, most likely shouldn’t have turned out the way it did. The conflict began…

Tens of millions of individuals who submitted claims in the AT&T data breach settlement are still waiting as of early 2026. As of the most recent update in February, the court had yet to render a decision on the final approval hearing, which took place in a federal courtroom in Dallas on January 15, 2026. There have been no payments made. There is no confirmed timeline. The Kroll Settlement Administration’s settlement website states unequivocally and without much consolation that the court is still debating whether to approve the settlement and that no one can predict when that will happen. Given…

The U.S. Department of Justice made an announcement on a Friday afternoon in April that was unprecedented, at least not quite like this. One of the world’s oldest and most well-known tech companies, IBM, consented to pay the federal government $17,077,043 to resolve claims that its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies had gone beyond the law. After signing, the money had to be paid within 14 days. No lengthy payment schedule. No protracted discussion. Just a check, and the DOJ made it very evident that this was the first settlement of its kind. As this develops, there’s a sense that…

The Porsha Williams divorce settlement played out in a way that was almost cinematic: a judge browsing through Instagram profiles during the hearing, a man being questioned via Zoom from another continent, and a hearing that lasted from 9:30 in the morning until the evening. Watching this unfold felt like the last chapter of a story Porsha Williams had been quietly writing since her first marriage ended more than ten years ago, for anyone who has followed her journey on Real Housewives of Atlanta over the years.The union with Simon Guobadia lasted precisely fifteen months. However, it took much longer…

Over the course of about four weeks, from late July to late August of 2023, unauthorized actors stealthily gained access to McLaren Health Care Corporation’s computer systems. The network, which runs clinics and hospitals throughout Michigan, was impacted. Access to patient records was made. Names, Social Security numbers, medical records, insurance information—the kind of data that requires years to completely secure after it is released. Then, in the summer of 2024, nearly exactly a year later, it occurred once more. There are two violations. Two summers in a row. About 2.8 million people are impacted. The $14 million class action…