Fidelity Reaches $2.5M Settlement Over Data Breach Affecting 155,000 Customers

Caroline Ryan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:53:13 +0000

Fidelity Investments has reached a proposed $2.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit concerning an alleged data breach.

The settlement proposal received preliminary approval on Monday in the Massachusetts federal court.

The lawsuit claims that more than 155,000 account holders had their personal and financial information compromised during a cybersecurity incident in 2024.

The breach reportedly allowed unauthorized access to Fidelity’s systems, exposing sensitive customer data, including names, social security numbers, financial account information, and driver’s license information.

According to the complaint, the breach occurred between August 17 and August 19, 2024, but affected customers were not notified until October 10, 2024. This delay ...

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Grammarly Faces Lawsuit Over Its Alleged AI Use Of Expert Commentary (Updated)

Caroline Ryan — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:41:44 +0000

The article was updated to add the Superhuman CEO statement about the issue. — Editor’s Note

Grammarly's artificial intelligence tool Expert Review is under fire after writing experts claim they did not give the company permission to use their names or provide expert feedback on their behalf.

In a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Julia Angwin — a contributing opinion editor at The New York Times — alleges that the Expert Review tool used her name and others' without prior consent.

"Grammarly structured the Expert Review tool so that its customers would believe that the "experts" like Ms. Angwin were providing their perspective, insight, feedback, and comments on the users' writing or, at a minimum, that the experts were associated with feedback and comments being provided," the lawsuit stated.

The lawsuit also states that Angwin and other journalists, authors and editors have “suffered economic injury," due to the fact that they were not compensated for the use of their names and identities.

Angwin was "shocked and horrified" to learn that Grammarly had appropriated her name and ...

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Fidelity Reaches $2.5M Settlement Over Data Breach Affecting 155,000 Customers

Grammarly Faces Lawsuit Over Its Alleged AI Use Of Expert Commentary (Updated)