Disney settles disclosure charges
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Walt Disney settles US federal charges that it failed to disclose how family members of directors were employed by the company.
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The DuPont Co. agreed to a settlement potentially worth more than $340 million Thursday to resolve allegations the chemical giant contaminated drinking water in West Virginia
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Qwest Communications International  Inc. Q.N has agreed to pay $250 million to settle financial  and disclosure fraud charges, a source familiar with the matter  said on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Co. (DIS) on Wednesday agreed to sell its money-losing Disney store chain to Children&#39;s Place Retail Stores (PLCE) in a deal analysts described as positive for Children&#39;s Place.
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Cable TV channels owned by Viacom  Inc. and Disney Corp. have agreed to settle allegations they  violated federal advertising restrictions for children's  programming, U.S. regulators said on Thursday.
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Time Warner has agreed to pay more than $500 million to settle wide-ranging criminal and civil allegations that its America Online division improperly pumped up revenue and engaged
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Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. agreed Thursday to pay a total of &#36;1.5 million to settle government charges the companies violated advertising limits for children's television programming.
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The regional telecommunications company Qwest agreed Thursday to pay $250 million to settle allegations that it improperly booked millions in revenue and that senior managers sought to cover it up.
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US market regulators charged Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday with failing to disclose a web of relationships between the entertainment
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Qwest Communications International Inc. (QN: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to pay $250 million to settle financial and disclosure fraud charges, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement with two former employees of SpeechWorks International Inc. over claims they used faulty accounting practices to mislead investors. But a third former SpeechWorks employee plans to fight the charges in court.
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(InfoWorld) - A subcontractor working for a company that processes and fulfills orders for the Disney Movie Club sold credit card numbers and other account information belonging to an unknown number of customers to undercover law enforcement agents. The May 2007 incident has prompted Disney to send out letters to an unspecified number of customers informing them about the breach. Disney did not respond to requests for comment about the incident. But Brad Van Duser, an Atlanta-based customer of the company's movie club, received the letter and made it available to Computerworld. The letter is dated July 6 and signed by John Flynn, vice president of online digital and directing marketing for Buena Vista Home Entertainment, a division of The Walt Disney Co. In it, Flynn said the incident involved an employee at Alta Resources Inc., a Neenah, Wis.-based outsourcer working for Disney. According to Flynn, the employee sold credit card information including names, addresses, credit card numbers and expiration dates to law enforcement authorities in an undercover sting operation. Flynn said Disney had been assured that card security codes, such as the CVV code, had not been compromised in the incident. "Law enforcement officials have informed us that there is no indication that your information was used to make improper purchases or sold to anyone other than federal law enforcement agents," Flynn said in his letter. "Nevertheless, in an abundance of caution, we have informed representatives of Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover of these events." The letter urged recipients to contact the financial institutions that issued their credit cards if they had any questions regarding their accounts. But it did not mention any free credit monitoring services, an option many companies have offered in similar situations. Van Duser said he was surprised by the incident. "As a customer, what surprised me the most was that even after all of the security breaches reported in the news recently that a large, reputable company like Disney had not taken steps to thoroughly protect my credit card information," he said in an e-mail. "And then when the breach occurred, they didn't offer a credit monitoring or other service." The Disney incident is the latest in a seemingly endless stream of breaches being disclosed by major companies this summer. Just this week it was disclosed that Kingston Technologies Inc., a maker of computer memory technologies, sent out letters to about 27,000 customers in connection with a September 2005 data breach that the company did not discover until recently. Western Union made a similar disclosure, announcing that it was notifying about 20,000 customers of a potential compromise of their personal data following the discovery of a database intrusion. Such incidents have heightened consumer concerns and pushed several states to consider or enact laws requiring retailers and other entities handling credit card data to implement safeguards for protecting the data. One of the most closely watched of these laws is California's proposed AB 779 legislation, which would require breached entities such as Disney to disclose more details about security breaches, including a description of the categories of personal data that might have been compromised. In addition, the law would also hold breached entities financially liable for the costs incurred by banks and credit unions to notify customers of a breach and to subsequently block and reissue cards.
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Walt Disney Co. agreed yesterday to settle federal regulators' charges that it failed to disclose benefits received by some directors and their relatives, including former directors Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold, who led a shareholder revolt this year against chief executive Michael Eisner.
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Viacom and Disney agreed Thursday to pay a total of &#36;1.5 million to settle government charges the companies violated advertising limits for children's television programming.
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Bee Staff Writer. In the latest crackdown on conflicts of interest on Wall Street, federal and state regulators said Thursday that they&#39;ve obtained a $100 million settlement from two investment
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Children&#39;s cable TV channels owned by Viacom Inc. (VIAb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Disney Corp. (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) have agreed to settle allegations they violated
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The data aggregator said that it has reached a deal to settle a class-action suit filed by shareholders over the massive data breach the company disclosed in early 2005.