AG Rosenblum Announces $20 Million National Settlement With Payment Processor ACI Over Unauthorized Mortgage Payment Withdrawals

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum joined 50 attorneys general in announcing a $20 million settlement with payment processor ACI Worldwide. Oregon will receive approximately $200,000 from the settlement. The settlement resolves a 2021 testing error that led to processing $2.3 billion in unauthorized mortgage payments. Nationstar Mortgage, known publicly as Mr. Cooper, offered ACI’s Speedpay… View Article

Posted in Media Release, News on October 17, 2023

Attorney General Rosenblum Joins Multistate Coalition to Protect Access to Medication Abortion Drug Mifepristone

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today joined a multistate coalition of 24 attorneys general in fighting to protect access to medication abortion nationwide. The coalition of attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) and Danco Laboratories LLC’s petitions to reverse the… View Article

Posted in Media Release, News on October 13, 2023

AG/DOJ Delivers Report of Examination of OLCC Cannabis Program Audit to Gov. Kotek

AG supports independent firm’s recommendation to pull audit from SOS website In April 2023, Governor Kotek asked Attorney General Rosenblum to conduct an examination of an Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) audit prepared by then-Secretary of State Fagan’s Audits Division. Thereafter, Oregon Department of Justice engaged California-based Sjoberg Evashenk (Sjoberg) Consulting. Sjoberg has completed… View Article

Posted in Media Release, News on October 11, 2023

Attorney General Rosenblum Joins Multistate Amicus Brief In Support Of Student Debt Relief For Defrauded Borrowers

Urges the Fifth Circuit to uphold the U.S. Department of Education’s student loan discharge authority and other protections for borrowers harmed by predatory institutions. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case Career… View Article

Posted in Media Release, Student Loan Debt on October 11, 2023

Attorney General Rosenblum Announces Nearly $50 Million Multistate Settlement With Blackbaud For Data Breach Impacting Thousands Of Nonprofits And Millions Of Consumers

Oregon will receive $655,791 Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced today that Oregon, along with all 50 states and the District of Columbia, has reached a settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security practices and, particularly, its response to a 2020 ransomware event that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers across… View Article

Posted in Consumer Protection, Media Release, Privacy on October 5, 2023