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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Intuit Inc.
Current Parent Company: Intuit
Penalty: $2,820,000
Year: 2019
Date: May 15, 2019
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Intuit agreed to provide free services to customers and pay over $2.8 million in legal fees and costs to settle litigation alleging that security flaws in its software allowed fraudsters to file nearly 1 million fake tax returns.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 5:15cv1778
Case Name: In re Intuit Data Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: California
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: information technology
Specific Industry of Current Parent: software
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