United States:
Large Internet Company Faces Class Actions For Breach Of Consumer Information
24 November 2016
by
Daniel J. McLoon
,
Mauricio Paez
,
Kevin Lyles
,
Todd McClelland
,
Jeff Rabkin
,
Adam Salter
,
Michiru Takahashi
,
Undine Von Diemar
,
Olivier Haas
,
Jörg Hladjk
,
Richard Johnson
,
Anand Varadarajan
,
Nicole Perry
and
Alexa Sendukas
Jones Day
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In September 2016, three proposed class action lawsuits
were filed in California and Illinois against a
major internet company resulting from a 2014 breach of
accountholder information. This case stemmed from a leak of names,
passwords, and other account information of at least 500 million
users. The company learned of the 2014 breach during the summer of
2016 and alerted users of the breach shortly thereafter. The
complaint alleged that the company acted recklessly in securing its
users' personal information and failed to discover the attack
for "an unusually long time."
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