Tamara Burns  |  October 5, 2015

Category: Consumer News

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Trump Hotels class action lawsuitDonald Trump’s hotel chain Trump International Hotels Management LLC has been hit with a class action lawsuit in Illinois federal court. According to the Trump Hotels class action lawsuit, a data breach allegedly occurred impacting consumers who conducted credit card transactions across multiple locations throughout a period spanning more than a year.

Plaintiff John Driscoll alleges that due to the defendants’ failure to safeguard consumer financial data, including names, credit and debit card account numbers, expiration dates, PIN numbers, security codes and other personal identifying information (PII), consumers’ personal and financial information was vulnerable to a data breach.

The data breach allegedly occurred at seven Trump Hotels: Trump SoHo New York, Trump National Doral in Miami, Trump International New York, Trump International Chicago, Trump International Waikiki, Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas and Trump International Toronto.

According to the Trump Hotels data breach class action lawsuit, “On or about September 29, 2015, Trump announced data thieves had gained unauthorized access to Consumer Plaintiffs’ and other Class members’ PII through the portion of its computer network that accepts or processes payment card transactions for the Properties.”

Customers who used credit and debit cards at the named properties between May 19, 2014 and June 2, 2015 are potentially affected by the Trump Hotels data breach.

Trump Hotels did not specifically say when the potential data breach had been uncovered, but said immediately upon learning of the breach, they contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and various banks. Additionally, the company reportedly hired an outside investigator for the matter.

In addition, Trump Hotels offered potentially affected consumers a year of free credit monitoring service and urged consumers to keep a close eye on their financial information and credit card statements and to report unusual activity to their financial institutions and the authorities.

The Trump Hotels class action lawsuit, however, claims that customers were not notified about the data breach in a timely manner, and thus put consumers in a vulnerable position of being unable to take action to protect their personal information from the aftermath of the data breach.

According to the Trump Hotels data breach class action lawsuit, when consumer information has been stolen, illegal websites sell the private information to international card counterfeit operations. After an illegal purchase of a consumer’s PII is made, criminals can reportedly create fake credit cards to make fraudulent purchases or create counterfeit debit cards to withdraw cash at ATMs from unsuspecting consumers.

Driscoll’s data breach class action lawsuit brings forth several counts against Trump Hotels including violations of state consumer protection laws, violation of state data breach notification laws, negligence, negligence per se, breach of implied contact and unjust enrichment.

As a result of the data breach, Driscoll and putative Class Members have allegedly suffered ascertainable losses, economic damages, and other actual injury and harm, including: invasion of privacy, breach of confidentiality of their PII, untimely and inadequate notification of the data breach, the potential for increased risk in the future of economic and other losses, and have lost time for having to spend additional time monitoring their financial information as a result of the data breach.

On behalf of the Class Members and himself, Driscoll seeks injunctive relief, declaratory relief, monetary damages, statutory damages and all other relief deemed just and proper by the court.

The plaintiffs are represented by John Hipskind and Brady M. McAninch of Hipskind & McAninch LLC.

The Trump Hotels Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit is John Driscoll, et al. v. Trump International Hotels Management LLC, et al., Case No. 3:15-cv-01089, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

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