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Mar-23-15 Washington, DC The $10 million preliminary settlement announced last week in the 2013 Target data breach , together with preceding settlements tied to prior data breaches affecting other retailers and organizations, signals corporate America’s willingness to settle in view of continuing thefts of and threats to a consumer’s personal informat... - Premera Data Breach Victim Facing False Tax Return Joins Premera Class Action
Jul-12-15 Tacoma, WA It’s one thing to have your personal information and data hacked with the potential for it to fall into the wrong hands. But when that person who is amongst the millions of Americans whose personal data was compromised works in the healthcare field, it introduces an entirely new set of potential problems and frustrations. Such is the case... - Target Data Breach Class Action Gets Approval
Jan-24-15 St. Paul, MN A federal judge has given the okay for Target data breach lawsuits to go ahead as a class action. The lawsuits allege Target customers were harmed by a data breach from November 27 to December 15, 2013, that made their personal information vulnerable. Approximately 110 million Target customers may have been affected by the data breach. ... - More Bad News surrounding Home Depot Data Breach
Nov-12-14 Los Angeles, CA The data breach nightmare that hit retail giant Home Depot last year is continuing to have repercussions for both the retailer and the millions of North Americans who fell victim to the massive hack simply for being a customer. Many a data breach lawsuit has come forward as a result of the compromised information. Now comes word that... - Privacy Violation Lawsuit News and Legal Information
More and more companies face lawsuits alleging their actions or negligence have compromised people's privacy. This privacy invasion can occur through internet data breaches , misuse of targeted advertising, or illegal monitoring of private communications. Even when purchases are made in person, there is a possibility of a breach of privacy if the retaile... - Abogados de Comercio, contrato y negocios
Leyes de negocios se compone de normas, leyes, códigos y reglamentos que governan las relaciones comerciales. Abogados de negocios pueden ayudarle a conducir y la manejar de su empresa dentro de este marco jurídico. Litigacion de negocios puede incluir pleitos entre socios, colecciones, la mediación, el cumplimiento de los contratos,... - Ashley Madison Data Breach Class Action Proposed in Missouri
Aug-23-15 St. Louis, MO As expected, lawsuits have already begun to roll in stemming from the infamous Ashley Madison data breach. An American plaintiff has proposed a data breach class action in Missouri federal court under the anonymous pseudonym Jane Doe. Various legal pundits have cited concerns about the anonymity of the plaintiff. However, the legal commu... - Equifax Data Breach Liability
Washington, DC: Equifax Inc, is facing several lawsuits over its recent and enormous data breach, which affects nearly half of the population in the US. One of the largest data breaches in US history, the credit reporting agency only revealed in September that hackers had accessed about 143 million US consumers’ names, Social Security numb... - Data Breach Class-Action Lawsuit Sprouts in California
Jul-15-16 San Diego, CA: A data breach lawsuit has sprouted up in California, alleging that a phishing scam has resulted in the hacking of wage and tax forms belonging to some 21,000 employees in 13 states. The defendant is Sprouts Farmers Market Inc., an enterprise based in Phoenix, Arizona, with 224 stores across the country. The allegation is that W-2 Wage... - $25M Settlement Reached in Home Depot Data Breach Class Action
Santa Clara, CA: A $25 million settlement has been reached between Home Depot and financial institutions who brought a class action against the home hardware retailer alleging it was negligent in preventing a massive data breach in 2014. The putative class action alleged that the data breach compromised 56 million credit and debit card numbers of... - Home Depot Data Breach Lawsuit Alleges Complacency to Blame
May-24-15 Atlanta, GA A consolidated Home Depot data breach lawsuit , filed on behalf of consumers who say they were harmed by the data hack, alleges that Home Depot’s management is to blame for the security. The lawsuit alleges that complacency in securing customer data allowed hackers to access private consumer financial and personal information. Accor... - If the Feds Can Get Hacked in a Data Breach, How Safe Are We?
Feb-4-16 Washington, DC: Mary Woo is just one of some 21.5 million Americans whom the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) estimate were affected in some way by a massive data breach that hit the OPM, and is considered the largest hack of its kind suffered by the US Government. Disgruntled plaintiffs - Mary Woo among them - who assumed the federal government... - Premera Blue Cross Reports Data Breach of 11 Million Accounts
Los Angeles, CA: As many as 11 million people may have suffered exposure of the medical and financial information as a result of a massive data breach on health insurer Premera Blue Cross. The cyber attack is alleged to have begun in May 2014, with hackers accessing claims data including clinical information, as well as bank account and social securi... - UCLA Health Should Wake Up and Smell Too Many Data Breaches
Aug-17-15 Los Angeles, CA It’s almost a joke. How many UCLA data breaches and lawsuits does it take for UCLA Health Systems to figure out how to properly store private medical information? This isn’t the first time UCLA has been hacked and sued. Besides last month’s data breach and subsequent data breach class action , its patients’... - Second US Government Data Breach Could Affect 14 Million
Jun-14-15 Washington, DC Recent data breaches affecting Target and Home Depot were sufficient to unnerve even the most ardent and confident consumer of online information and commerce. However, when the federal government was hacked a few weeks ago, concern turned to fear for many. If the government isn’t safe, then who is? And now, according to The Gu... - More Lawsuits Filed in Home Depot Data Breach
Dec-18-14 Atlanta, GA Lawsuits filed in the Home Depot data breach have been consolidated into a multidistrict litigation. The 11 lawsuits have reportedly been consolidated in Atlanta federal court in the Northern District of Georgia. The lawsuits allege Home Depot did not comply with data security guidelines concerning the protection of customer information. ... - Lawsuits Mounting in Target Data Breach Case
Feb-8-14 Charlotte, NC As regulators look into what caused the recent Target data breach and banks and Target fight over who is to blame for the financial fallout, consumers are filing Target data breach lawsuits, alleging they were harmed by the breach, including having their debit and/or credit account information sold illegally. Meanwhile, banks and credit u... - Uber Wins Data Breach Lawsuit; T-Mobile Faces Lawsuit of Its Own
Oct-20-15 San Francisco, CA: Uber has been handed a victory in the courts, winning dismissal of a proposed class-action lawsuit concerning a massive data breach . The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in San Francisco, who ruled the plaintiff had not properly shown Uber was at fault in the data breach. Although the judge dismissed the lawsuit, attorneys were given... - P.F. Chang’s Victim of Data Breach
Aug-22-14 Seattle, WA With each day bringing new reports of data breach cases and hackers gaining access to confidential information, P.F. Chang’s has announced that it, too, was a victim of a data breach. Meanwhile, lawsuits are being filed against companies accused of not properly protecting customer and client information from hackers and thieves. In... - The Fallout from a Data Breach
Jan-2-16 Los Angeles, CA: The fallout from a data breach can be massive in scope, as evidenced by the millions of people affected when their personal information is illegally accessed. Some cases involve stolen card numbers and consumers who allege their credit cards were used illegally. But other cases involve identity theft, where consumers don’t find o...