Privacy and Data Breach

Overview

Airlines, grocery stores, technology companies, even pet stores, everyone is asking consumers for their personal information and collecting it. But these companies are not taking care of the data we provide them. Data breaches abound because many companies do not encrypt or adequately protect data and they keep our data long after they reasonably need to do so. When companies fall short of what consumers and standard industry practices require and expect, they should be held accountable for the damage that they cause.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, and its attorneys are on the leading edge of data breach and privacy litigation. When we learn that unfair privacy practices or a preventable data breach have harmed consumers, we will file a case and seek justice, no matter how big or how wealthy the company behind these bad practices may be.

The Data Breach Practice Group at CPM is led by Thomas Loeser, a trial attorney with 25 years of experience and the only former federal cyber prosecutor in the Plaintiff’s Data Breach Bar. Mr. Loeser’s extensive training and experience in the investigation and prosecution of data breach, hacking and privacy cases has led courts in many of the biggest privacy and data breach cases to appoint him to leadership positions. Team members in Seattle include Karin Swope, a seasoned CPM litigator who has represented individuals and sovereign nations in protecting their intellectual property rights, including before the USPTO and Ellen Wen, a recent University of Washington Law School graduate who is becoming an expert in data breach and privacy protection cases. In Burlingame, the team includes Partner Mark Molumphy, who negotiated a $310 million settlement – the largest all-cash recovery in a computer intrusion case in history – on behalf of a class of approximately 100 million iPhone users in the Apple Device Performance Litigation, and Gia Jung, who ads several years of trial advocacy to her Certificate in IP & Technology Law from Berkeley. CPM has represented consumers in many of the nation’s largest data breach class actions, including lawsuits against T-Mobile, AT&T, Rite Aid, MGM and many others. Successful data breach cases have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars being made available to consumers whose information has been compromised.

The firm was recently appointed to leadership positions in the MGM Grand Data Breach Litigation, the T-Mobile 2022 Data Breach Litigation, the Rite Aid Data Breach Litigation and in the massive AT&T Data Breach Litigation in Dallas, Texas, which involves a breach of personal and financial information of 76 million current and former AT&T customers.

If you have received notice that your information was compromised in a data breach or believe that your right to privacy is being violated by a company in the United States, you can submit your information at the link below for a free case evaluation.

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