Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Canon) was hit with a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York this week for the ransomware attack that exposed current and former employees’ personal information in November 2020. The plaintiffs reside in Ohio, New York, Florida and Illinois, and allege that Canon was
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Michael’s Stores class action data breach case dismissed
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Michael’s Stores, Inc. was dismissed from a putative data breach class action case involving the breach of 2.6 million payment cards as the plaintiffs were unable to show that they were injured as a result of the incident.
The case follows a long list of cases that hold that plaintiffs in data breach cases do…