On September 15, 2015, the court presiding over the financial institutions data breach lawsuit arising out of the Target data breach granted the Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. The practical implications of this decision are that financial institutions affected by… Continue Reading →
On August 6, 2015, the Illinois Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Maglio v. Advocate Health and Hosp. Corp., dismissing the complaints filed in two class action lawsuits seeking damages related to a theft of Advocate Health’s computers containing information… Continue Reading →
Purchasers of cars manufactured by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) have filed a purported class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois arising out of their cars’ vulnerability to hackers taking control of their cars’ functions,… Continue Reading →
On July 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its decision in Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, LLC, directly addressing Article III of the U.S. Constitution, the standing for data breach plaintiffs. The issue of… Continue Reading →
Lawyers for a portion of the Financial Institution Plaintiffs in the Target class action litigation (including smaller financial institutions Umpqua Bank, Mutual Bank, Village Bank, CSE Federal Credit Union and First Federal Savings of Lorain) filed a motion for preliminary injunction to block… Continue Reading →
On June 6, 2012, LinkedIn announced it had a data breach that involved hackers taking 6.5 million passwords from March 16, 2006 through June 7, 2012. The passwords were ultimately published on a Russian hacker website. A class action lawsuit… Continue Reading →
In a case of first impression within the Fifth Circuit, a district court has dismissed a putative class action complaint brought after a data breach against one of the larger health organizations operating in California and Texas. In Peters v. St…. Continue Reading →
On December 2, 2014, the U.S. District Court for Minnesota issued its Memorandum and Order in the “Financial Institution Cases” against Target which granted in part and denied in part Target’s Motion to Dismiss. Target’s motion sought dismissal of a class… Continue Reading →
Target has filed a motion to dismiss a class action complaint filed by a number of banks related to the December 2013 attack by hackers resulting in the massive breach of customers’ credit/debit card information. The banks’ class action seeks… Continue Reading →
Patients of Community Health Systems filed a Complaint initiating a class action in the Northern District of Alabama against the hospital system on August 20, 2014. The class action arises out of the breach of an estimated 4.5 million patients’ protected data…. Continue Reading →
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