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Berkeley Research Group suffered a cyberattack last week, according to people with knowledge of the matter, just as banks have been looking to wrap up a debt sale that would finance the consulting firm’s buyout by Towerbrook Capital Partners. The … Source: Claims Journal

Microsoft Corp. warned that an advanced Chinese hacking group is waging a campaign of supply-chain attacks. The company’s threat intelligence division said in a blog post Wednesday that the group, known as Silk Typhoon, was targeting remote management tools and … Source: Claims Journal

Intel won the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the chipmaker of fraudulently concealing problems in its foundry business, leading to job cuts and a dividend suspension that wiped out more than $32 billion of market value in one day. … Source: Claims Journal

The Justice Department opened an investigation into the University of California to determine if the UC system has allowed an Antisemitic hostile work environment to exist on its campuses. The investigation, being conducted under Title VII of the Civil Rights … Source: Claims Journal

President Donald Trump will exempt automakers from his punishing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for one month as long as they comply with the terms of an existing free trade agreement, the White House said on Wednesday. Trump is … Source: Claims Journal

Los Angeles County sued Edison International to recoup its losses from a January wildfire that was one of the most destructive in California history. The suit alleges that equipment owned by the company’s Southern California Edison utility caused the Eaton … Source: Claims Journal

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not open to lifting Canada’s full package of retaliatory tariffs if U.S. President Donald Trump leaves any tariffs on Canada in place, according to a senior Canadian government official. Trudeau’s government is cool to the … Source: Claims Journal

A modest 3% decline in pedestrian deaths in the first half of last year comes amid a decade-long rise in deaths of people walking in the U.S., a new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association shows. Drivers killed 3,304 … Source: Claims Journal

A forklift driver for Frito-Lay who injured his achilles tendon playing in a company basketball game is not covered by workers compensation. The Virginia Workers Compensation Commission (VWCC) upheld the denial of benefits because the employee’s voluntary participation in the … Source: Claims Journal

A powerful late-winter storm is battering the central and eastern U.S. with heavy rain, snow and wind, canceling hundreds of flights and leaving more than 400,000 homes and businesses without power. The storm hit parts of Texas with nickel-sized hail … Source: Claims Journal