Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
The SEC sued Coinbase for operating as an unregistered securities broker, exchange, and clearing agency, alleging that many of the crypto tokens listed on the platform were securities under federal law — and that Coinbase's commercial success was built on regulatory obligations it had chosen to ignore.
Read the full report →NovaBay Pharmaceuticals restated previously reported revenue after finding that product shipments had been recorded as revenue before the criteria for recognition were satisfied, requiring restatement of prior period financial statements.
Read the full report →A commercial VoIP carrier continued to route calls for operators running illegal robocall campaigns after receiving specific, actionable complaints about the traffic — a failure to act that federal regulators characterized as facilitating consumer harm at scale.
Read the full report →The SEC charged First American Financial with disclosure violations after finding that executives knew about a vulnerability exposing 885 million mortgage and real estate documents to unauthenticated public access for years — and that the company's public cybersecurity disclosures did not accurately reflect the known risk.
Read the full report →The FTC found Questcor Pharmaceuticals — later acquired by Mallinckrodt — had illegally maintained its monopoly position in the Acthar Gel market by acquiring the U.S. rights to Synacthen, the only synthetic competitor to Acthar, and then refusing to develop it — eliminating the competitive threat and allowing Acthar's price to remain at levels that could not have survived competition.
Read the full report →The FTC charged Blink Health with advertising prescription discount prices that patients could not actually obtain at the pharmacies the platform indicated would accept them — deceptive representations that led patients to expect discounts that required traveling to distant pharmacies or that were not available through pharmacies conveniently located to the patient.
Read the full report →ARcare, a nonprofit serving rural and medically underserved communities across Arkansas, disclosed a cyberattack that exposed protected health information for approximately 345,000 patients — many from populations with limited ability to navigate breach response on their own.
Read the full report →For years, FTX marketed itself as crypto's most trustworthy exchange. In ten days in November 2022, it collapsed entirely — and prosecutors say the reason was billions of dollars in customer money that had quietly disappeared into a sister trading firm.
Read the full report →SolarWinds misrepresented its cybersecurity program to investors in public statements that described robust controls while internal documents acknowledged significant security deficiencies — a gap that came into sharp focus when the Orion software was compromised in a major supply chain attack.
Read the full report →A pop-up warning said your computer was riddled with errors and security threats. Regulators say the warning was fake — and it worked on tens of millions of dollars' worth of frightened consumers.
Read the full report →The FTC found Assurant Specialty Property overcharged homeowners for force-placed insurance policies while paying undisclosed kickbacks to mortgage servicers who placed policies with Assurant — a dual harm to borrowers who were required to pay inflated premiums on coverage selected through a conflict-of-interest arrangement.
Read the full report →TV's 'Flipping Vegas' star and a bestselling author promoted a real estate training program that the FTC says sold overpriced properties at fake discounts — and helped bury the complaints that followed.
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