Data Security Litigation News Today

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions from Federal Appellate Courts.   The Roundup normally will arrive in your...

California federal Judge William Alsup dismissed claims against Mint Mobile LLC from plaintiff Daniel Fraser alleging Mint had data breach that disclosed his, others’ personal information like names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, passwords.

CPW has been covering the data breach litigation In re: Wawa, Inc. Data Security Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (see here and here)...

Several class action lawsuits were filed due to Wawa data breach affecting consumers from most of 850 locations. Complaint alleges breach began March 2019, when malware was installed on point-of-sale payment system, malicious actors harvested financial data from purchases.

In Re: Wawa, Inc. Data Security Litigation granting in part and denying in part a motion to dismiss filed by Wawa, a convenience store chain, stemming from a class action lawsuit filed against it by a group of credit unions following an alleged data breach. 

Monday, December 28, 2020 2020 has been a year for the record books, and the area of data breach litigation is no exception.   Several key developments, when considered individually or in conjunction, will likely make breach litigation a top of mind data privacy issue going into the next year.  So fasten your seatbelts and read on as CPW recaps what you need to know going into 2021. Overview of Industries Impacted by Data Breach Litigation in 2020 What industries were impacted by d...