Ally Financial data breach class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Plaintiff Robert Hamilton filed a class action lawsuit against Ally Financial Inc., Ally Bank and Financial Business and Consumer Solutions Inc.
- Why: Hamilton claims Ally Financial failed to properly safeguard the personally identifiable information of 4.2 million of its customers during an April 2024 data breach.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in a Pennsylvania federal court.
Ally Financial failed to properly secure and safeguard the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 4.2 million customers during an April 2024 data breach, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Robert Hamilton argues that mismanagement by Ally Financial and its debt collection agency, Financial Business and Consumer Solutions Inc. (FBCS), allowed the PII of Ally Financial customers to become exposed after FBCS experienced a data breach.
“Defendants failed to adequately protect Plaintiff’s and Class Members’ PII –– and failed to even encrypt or redact this highly sensitive information,” the Ally Financial class action states.
Hamilton wants to represent a nationwide class of consumers whose PII was compromised in the Ally Financial data breach.
Class action claims PII exposed in data breach was unencrypted
Hamilton argues Ally Financial and FBCS failed to adequately protect the PII of Ally customers by failing to vet its vendors to ensure they were submitting PII to an entity with adequate data security practices.
“Defendants disregarded the rights of Plaintiff and Class Members by intentionally, willfully, recklessly or negligently failing to ensure that FBCS had adequate and reasonable safeguards and measures in place to protect the PII of Plaintiff and Class Members after that information was transferred and entrusted to FBCS,” the Ally Financial class action lawsuit says.
Hamilton claims Ally Financial and FBCS are guilty of negligence, negligence per se, breach of express contract, breach of implied contract and unjust enrichment.
The plaintiff demands a jury trial and requests declaratory and injunctive relief and an award of actual, compensatory, statutory, nominal and punitive damages for himself and all class members.
A consumer filed a separate class action lawsuit against Ally Financial in 2024 over claims the company breached its duty with military servicemembers by failing to allow them to terminate their motor vehicle leases.
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The plaintiff is represented by Andrew W. Ferich of Ahdoot & Wolfson PC, Terence R. Coates and Jonathan T. Deters of Markovits, Stock & Demarco LLC, Jeff Ostrow of Kopelowitz Ostrow P.A. and Gary M. Klinger of Milberg PLLC.
The Ally Financial class action lawsuit is Hamilton, et al. v. Ally Financial Inc., et al., Case No. 2:25-cv-00629, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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I paid Ally my regular monthly payment and they report my truck two weeks later. Once I contacted the company, they expressed they made a mistake, but due to truck being in the possession of a tow company I had to pay the fees. I was left to pay for new jobs and there was damage to my truck too. This company is disgusting and does not respect the people they serve.
I signed up for a credit card with them, someone stole it out of my mailbox before I activated it and used my ssn to use it. There was 300+ dollars used before I got to activate it,i froze the card. The theif used it again by undoing the freeze talking to someone at ally plus finance and then racked up 3000+ dollars that is still affecting my credit I refuse to pay.
I paid Ally my regular monthly payment and they report my truck two weeks later. Once I contacted the company, they expressed they made a mistake, but due to truck being in the possession of a tow company I had to pay the fees. I was left to pay for new jobs and there was damage to my truck too. This company is disgusting and does not respect the people they serve.
I have an existing auto loan with Ally. I have received multiple calls a day for collections. Calls on Sunday and after 8:00 pm. I live in Pa. My loan is current at this moment. Ally is very slow in reporting on time payments to the 3 credit bureaus.