Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today that Montana, along with 49 other states, has reached a settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security practices and response to a 2020 data breach which exposed the information [...]
BILLINGS – Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Division of Criminal Investigation administrator Bryan Lockerby joined officials at Stockman Bank in Billings today, on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, to remind Montana seniors to be aware and take precautions as bad [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Knudsen and nearly 50 attorneys general from across the country filed a lawsuit against a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) company that helped facilitate more than 20 million spam robocalls to Montana phone numbers between December [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today that over 17,000 Montanans who were tricked by TurboTax’s owner Intuit into paying to file their federal tax return will begin receiving checks from a settlement announced last year. The checks, [...]
HELENA – Scammers are continuing their attempts to obtain personal information from unsuspecting Montanans over the phone by claiming to be law enforcement officials, Attorney General Austin Knudsen warned today. The fraudsters are disguising their phone number, so on caller [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is reminding Montanans to be aware of criminals trying to scam them as the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) fielded 974 scam complaints and saved Montanans from losing more than nearly [...]
HELENA – Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 14 other state attorneys general today called on Apple and Google to take immediate action and correct their application store age ratings of TikTok by the end of the year. The change [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is warning Montanans of scammers attempting to obtain personal information from unsuspecting individuals over the phone by claiming to be law enforcement officials. The fraudsters are disguising their phone number, so on caller ID [...]
HELENA – The state Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) will be sending restitution checks totaling $96,258 to more than 350 people who were deceived by operators of an alleged tech support scheme. The money was relinquished by [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced that Montana will receive at least $6.1 million under an agreement in principle between JUUL Labs resolving a multi-state investigation into the e-cigarette manufacturer’s marketing and sales practices. In addition to the financial [...]