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Month: April 2023

CFPB says employee sent confidential data of 256,000 consumers to personal email

By Krystal Hur, CNN An employee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent confidential data about hundreds of thousands of consumer accounts to their personal email, the agency told CNN on Thursday. Approximately 14 emails included consumer personally identifiable information, or PII. The employee also sent two spreadsheets that listed names and transaction-specific account numbers

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Takeaways from Julie Su’s confirmation hearing on her nomination to be the next labor secretary

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Julie Su, the Biden administration’s labor secretary nominee, appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Thursday, where she attempted to make the case for her confirmation as she was grilled by Republicans over her record. The Democratic majority on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,

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Exclusive: Evidence emerges of Russia’s Wagner arming militia leader battling Sudan’s army

By Nima Elbagir, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Tamara Qiblawi and Barbara Arvanitidis, CNN The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces with missiles to aid their fight against the country’s army, Sudanese and regional diplomatic sources have told CNN. The sources said the surface-to-air missiles have significantly buttressed RSF paramilitary fighters and their

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Judge who suspended abortion pill failed to disclose interviews that discussed social issues

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The federal district judge who first suspended the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the so-called abortion pill mifepristone failed to disclose during his Senate confirmation process two interviews on Christian talk radio where he discussed social issues such as contraception and gay rights. In undisclosed radio

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