Data Breaches: Gallagher & Kennedy has served the Maricopa County Community College District with another notice of class-action claims on behalf of approximately 2.5 million students, parents and others whose private, confidential information was compromised in a massive data breach.
Gallagher & Kennedy has served the Maricopa County Community College District with another notice of class-action claims on behalf of approximately 2.5 million students, parents and others whose private, confidential information was compromised in a massive data breach. The information included names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, demographic information, and as-yet-unspecified “enrollment, academic and financial aid information.” In April 2013, the FBI notified the District that this information was available for sale on the internet. Since then, the District has publicly acknowledged that the data breach “was due to substandard performance of [the District’s] IT workers,” and that the District had previously been notified of security vulnerabilities which went unaddressed. Moreover, the District’s counsel has disclosed that before beginning to notify those affected by the breach, the District took “remedial” action which prevented consultants from determining the extent to which the data had been accessed without authorization.
