breach

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Like it did in other cases involving the same breach, it could have argued that the U.S. couldn’t be sued because the contractor, Charles Littlejohn, wasn’t an IRS employee.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

The California attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company formerly known as 23andMe, accusing the genetic testing service of failing to protect customers’ data during a 2023 breach.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

The data breach affected nearly 7 million people across the country, including more than 850,000 Californians, according to a release from Atty.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

“The employee accessed our marketing material using a tool available to all employees, but using such confidential information to place bets is a serious breach of our policies,” a Google spokeswoman said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

She longed to touch that fur, to rub her cheeks against it, but of course she never did; for it was the grossest breach of etiquette imaginable to touch another person’s daemon.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman