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T-Mobile Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: A California judge granted T-Mobile’s motion to stay a class action lawsuit filed in the aftermath of a massive data breach.
- Why: The mobile company asked a judge to pause one of the numerous lawsuits alleging T-Mobile failed to properly secure and protect customers’ private information.
- Where: The class action lawsuit is being heard in California federal court.
U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman has granted T-Mobile’s motion to stay a class action lawsuit against the mobile company over a data breach that exposed the private information of millions of its customers in August.
T-Mobile says it has been flooded with more than 30 class action lawsuits since the incident and asked the court to pause the complaint until the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) decides whether or not to group them together for multidistrict litigation.
“The court finds that a stay will serve the orderly course of justice,” the order states. “T-Mobile is correct that it would not be efficient for this court to take up pre-trial issues and make rulings given the imminent possibility that the JPML will transfer this action to a different forum.”
T-Mobile told the court that, without a stay, it would need to try to dismiss all the class action lawsuits separately using virtually the same argument each time, which would deplete resources and set the stage for inconsistent rulings.
“In the absence of a stay, T-Mobile will be prejudiced because it would be required to expend significant resources litigating in multiple forums, conducting duplicative discovery and motion practice and facing potentially inconsistent rulings on identical issues,” T-Mobile said.
T-Mobile also told the court that Plaintiff Henry Thang has failed to identify any potential prejudice to himself or his proposed class if a stay is granted.
T-Mobile Data Breach Exposes 50M, Prompts Many Class Actions
In August, T-Mobile reported that hackers breached the company’s systems and stole the personal and private information of more than 50 million of its customers, including their names, phone numbers, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.
Affected customers included those who paid for service at the end of each month and those who applied for credit with T-Mobile with 7.8 million of the former group facing the maximum amount of data exposed, according to the company.
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The plaintiff is represented by Lowey Dannenberg PC and Law Offices of Ronald A. Marron APLC.
The T-Mobile Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit is Thang v. T-Mobile, Inc., Case No. 5:21-cv-06473, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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