We may be on the verge of a breakthrough in data breach litigation. A state judge in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that the Massachusetts Attorney General can move forward with a potentially gigantic data breach case against the credit reporting firm Equifax. The AG, Maura Healey, is asking for statutory damages under Massachusetts consumer and data security law on behalf of every state resident whose private information was exposed when hackers broke into Equifax’s systems – regardless of whether the breach actually injured any consumers.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters
