Last week, Mille Lacs County and former investigator for the Mille Lacs County Family Services, Mikki Jo Peterick, agreed to pay $1 million to settle a proposed federal class action which alleged that a former employee of...more
We wrote about Wendy’s investigation into a data breach at its chain restaurants at the beginning of January, and now Wendy’s faces a class action over that same breach. The suit claims that Wendy’s negligently exposed...more
Last week, a Minnesota court ruled that a consolidated class action filed against SuperValu retail chain failed to assert any harm, finding that while SuperValu did suffer two data breaches, the class’s claims of possible...more
We previously reported that Target Corp.’s (Target) settlement with MasterCard was rejected, but now, Target agreed to pay $39 million to settle the class action filed against it on behalf of the financial institutions...more
Securus Technologies (Securus), which provides phone services for many of the country’s prisons, experienced a breach of over 70 million phone records from over 37 states. The data leaked includes downloadable recordings of...more
On July 10, 2015, the Army National Guard announced a breach of its current and former members’ personal information, dating back to 2004. The breach occurred when files containing personal information were accidentally...more
Continuing the growing trend of dismissing data breach cases when there is no evidence of actual harm, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada last week dismissed a class action case filed against Zappos...more
On May 22, 2015, an online dating service called Adult FriendFinder confirmed that there had been a data breach of some of its 64 million users’ personal information. In an online notice to its users, Adult FriendFinder said...more
Target Corp. announced yesterday that it has settled the claims of MasterCard International Inc. (MasterCard) against it to reimburse MasterCard and its card issuers for the losses it sustained in issuing new credit and debit...more
4/17/2015
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Judge Paul Magnuson, who is presiding over the Target multi-district class action litigation in Minnesota, preliminarily approved the parties’ proposed settlement of the litigation involving the infamous breach affecting up...more