For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and 41 other bipartisan attorneys general today sued Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, for allegedly designing their social media platforms to hook children and teenagers and deceiving the public by claiming that these platforms were safe and […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, October 20, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement after Gov. Cooper signed the SAFE Act (H415) into law. The legislation will help prevent addiction treatment fraud in North Carolina and passed the General Assembly unanimously. “The SAFE Act will hold accountable […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 19, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $1.4 million bipartisan multistate settlement with health care clearinghouse Inmediata for exposing the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 1.5 million consumers over almost three years. Inmediata will also overhaul its data security and breach notification […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 ACI Will Pay North Carolina More Than $395,000 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $10 million settlement with ACI Worldwide, a payment processor company, over a 2021 testing error that led to the attempted unauthorized withdrawal of $2.3 billion from the […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, October 13, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today published a revised Senior Scam Guide, available here. The guide provides a look at the common scams and tactics that scammers use to target vulnerable North Carolinians, particularly older people, and steal their money and personal information. […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 12, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 The multistate brief urges the Fifth Circuit to uphold the U.S. Department of Education’s student loan discharge authority and other protections for harmed borrowers (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged an appeals court to uphold the Department of Education’s “Borrower Defense Rule.” […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and a bipartisan group of 13 Attorneys General from Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, released the following joint statement on the current situation in Israel and […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 5, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $49.5 million settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security practices and response to a 2020 ransomware attack that exposed the personal information of millions of people across the United States. The North […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 5, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 NCAA Decision Allows Tez Walker to Play After Stein’s Letter Urging them to Do So (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein released the below statement after the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) reversed its decision to bar UNC Chapel Hill football player Devontez Walker […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein joined local leaders in Charlotte today to highlight efforts to confront domestic violence and help victims and survivors as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Attorney General Stein was joined by Safe Alliance President and CEO Laura Lawrence, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]