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Frequent Marriott guest Pati Springmeyer has filed a class action complaint against hotel chain Marriott International, Inc. arising from a data breach

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The question of standing has proven to be a tricky one in data breach litigation.  (See our prior coverage here and here).  Last week a federal district court in Maryland rejected a proposed class action brought by Marriott guests related to a data breach suffered by the hotel chain in early 2020, finding that the plaintiffs did not have Article III standing because they could not trace any alleged injury to particular actions or inactions by Marriott.  This decision is an important reminder that the fact of a breach is not itsel...

ADVERTISEMENT Marriott Beats Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach Law360 (March 3, 2021, 10:40 PM EST) -- A Marriott guest's proposed class action related to a massive data breach cannot proceed because the complaint fails to properly allege facts about the hotel giant's cybersecurity or steps it could have taken to prevent the breach, a Maryland federal judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm ruled that Las Vegas resident Pati Springmeyer's suit was a repetition of conclusory and nonspecific allegations of Marriott's shortcomings that allegedly led to the 2020 data brea...