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J.B. Hunt Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: J.B. Hunt Transport is being accused of negligence in a class action lawsuit.
- Why: The company experienced a months-long data breach that compromised more than 230,000 job applicants’ personal data, a former job applicant alleges.
- Where: The class action is pending in Arkansas and seeks to represent job applicants nationwide.
J.B. Hunt Transport’s negligence and carelessness with job applicants’ personal data resulted in a data breach that could see more than 230,000 people’s social security numbers accessed by hackers, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Arkansas resident George Wilson, who previously applied for a job with the company, claims that J.B. Hunt Transport failed to properly secure and safeguard the social security numbers and other identifying information of job applicants, in turn compromising some of their most personal data in a months-long data breach.
Wilson says that the company experienced the breach between August 17, 2020 to July 2, 2021, due to its “negligent and/or careless acts and omissions” and its failure to protect the personally identifiable information.
He also alleges that J.B. Hunt Transport waited several months after discovering the breach to report it to the states’ Attorneys General and affected individuals.
“Defendant has also purposefully maintained secret the specific vulnerabilities and root causes of the breach and has not informed Plaintiff and Class Members of that information,” he alleges in the class action.
J.B. Hunt Data Breach Exposes More Than 230K Drivers’ Info, Says Class Action
Wilson says that hackers could have accessed the personal information of more than 231,000 people who applied to be drivers for the company and sold that information on the dark web during the data breach.
“Plaintiff and Class Members now face a lifetime risk of identity theft, which is heightened here by the loss of Social Security numbers,” says the J.B. Hunt class action lawsuit.
News of the data breach hit the internet on August 23, but the company did not alert the thousands affected by it until October 18, Wilson says, and because of the delayed response, he and others are “at significant risk of identity theft and various other forms of personal, social, and financial harm.”
“The risk will remain for their respective lifetimes,” the lawsuit states.
Wilson wants to represent anyone in the United States whose personal information was compromised in the breach. He is suing for negligence and breach of implied contract and seeks certification of the Class, injunctive relief, damages, attorney’s fees, and costs, interest, and a jury trial.
Last year, J.B. Hunt agreed to pay $6.5 million to end a class action lawsuit lodged by drivers who claimed the transportation company misclassified them as independent contractors, denying them overtime pay, minimum wage, and appropriate meal and rest breaks.
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The plaintiff is represented by Joseph Henry Bates, III and David F. Slade of Carney Bates & Pulliam, PLLC, and Jean Martin and Ryan D. Maxey of Morgan & Morgan Complex Business Division.
The J.B. Hunt Transport Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit is Wilson v. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., Case No. 5:21-cv-05194-TLB in the U.S. District Court For The Western District of Arkansas.
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I received a letter from J B Hunt that my Info was comcomizex.