ZeroedIn Technologies data breach class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Thomas Neeley filed a class action lawsuit against ZeroedIn Technologies LLC.
- Why: Neeley claims ZeroedIn failed to properly safeguard the sensitive Personal Identifiable Information of its customers’ employees during a data breach the company discovered on or about Aug. 8, 2023.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Florida federal court.
ZeroedIn Technologies failed to properly safeguard and secure sensitive Personal Identifiable Information (PII) belonging to the employees of its customers during a data breach the company discovered in August, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Thomas Neeley claims ZeroedIn suffered the data breach in part because it allegedly stored the PII of its customers’ employees’ “in an unencrypted, Internet-accessible environment on its public network.”
Neeley argues ZeroedIn also waited nearly four months after discovering the data breach to notify impacted individuals of the unauthorized access to their data.
“As a direct and proximate result of Defendant’s failure to implement and follow basic security procedures, Plaintiff’s and Class Members’ PII is now exposed to cybercriminals,” the ZeroedIn class action states.
Neeley wants to represent a nationwide class of individuals who had their PII or protected health information compromised during the ZeroedIn data breach.
ZeroedIn failed in duty to protect, safeguard sensitive data, class action says
Neeley argues ZeroedIn “knowingly collects and stores a litany of highly sensitive PII from its customers’ employees” and “has a ‘duty’ to secure, maintain, protect and safeguard it against unauthorized access and disclosures “through reasonable and adequate data security measures.”
By allegedly failing to do so, individuals impacted by the data breach are now at a “significantly increased and certainly impending risk of fraud, identity theft, health privacy intrusion and other ‘forms of criminal mischief’ and risk possibly for the rest of their lives,” the ZeroedIn class action alleges.
“Consequently, Plaintiff and Class Members must devote substantially more time, money and energy to protect themselves, to the extent possible, from these crimes,” the ZeroedIn class action states.
Neeley claims ZeroedIn is guilty of negligence and negligence per se. He demands a jury trial and requests declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of compensatory, punitive and/or nominal damages for himself and all class members.
In another recent case involving a data breach, a consumer filed a class action lawsuit against Comcast earlier this month, arguing the company failed to have adequate cybersecurity measures in place to protect its customers’ information from an October data breach.
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The plaintiff is represented by Nicholas A. Colella and Gary F. Lynch of Lynch Carpenter, LLP.
The ZeroedIn Technologies data breach class action lawsuit is Neeley, et al. v. Zeroed-In Technologies, LLC, Case No. 2:23-cv-01219, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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