Cash App, Block class action lawsuit overview:ย
- Who: Michelle Salinas and Raymel Washington filed a class action lawsuit against Block, Inc. and Cash App Investing, LLC.ย
- Why: Salinas and Washington claim Block and Cash App failed to protect their customerโs private information during a December 2021 data breach.ย
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.ย
Cash App and Block failed to safeguard the information of their customers during a December 2021 data breach, a new class action lawsuit alleges.ย
Plaintiffs Michelle Salinas and Raymel Washington claim Cash App and Blockโs alleged failure to secure their accounts led to โthe unauthorized public release of the personally identifiable information of 8.2 million current and former Cash App Investing customers.โย
The data breach compromised the security of the financial accounts, including Cash App Investing portfolios, of affected customers, they allege.
โThe security of Defendantsโ customersโ Private Information is accordingly of the utmost importance,โ states the Block and Cash App class action.ย ย
Salinas and Washington claim that even one instance of their private information being misused or improperly accessed by cybercriminals can โlead to substantial financial losses.โย
โThese costs will not only impact Defendantsโ bottom line but, more importantly, the millions of Cash App Investing users whose Private Information is now in the hands of cybercriminals,โ the Block and Cash App class action states.ย
Cash App, Block class action alleges former employee downloaded info without authorization
The data breach came to light after Block disclosed that one of its former employees had downloaded the private information of Cash App investors without being authorized to do so, according to the Cash App and Block class action.ย
While alleging that the exact reason for the data breach โremain unclear,โ the plaintiffs argue โthere is no doubt that Defendants failed to adequately protect Plaintiffsโ and Class membersโ Private Information.โย
Salinas and Washington claim Cash App and Block are guilty of breach of contract and negligence and in violation of Californiaโs Unfair Competition Law and the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act, among other things.ย
They demand a jury trial and request declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of actual, compensatory and statutory damages for themselves and all class members.ย
Salinas and Washington want to represent a nationwide class of consumers who had their information compromised in the data breach, along with subclasses from California, Illinois and Texas.ย
A similar class action lawsuit was filed against R.R. Donnelly earlier this month over claims the printing company was negligent in protecting the data of its customers during a 2021 data breach.ย
Have you had your personal information compromised as the result of the Cash App and Block data breach? Let us know in the comments!ย
The plaintiffs are represented by Dennis Stewart, Daniel E. Gustafson, David A. Goodwin and Mary M. Nikolai of Gustafson Gluek PLLC; Nicholas A. Migliaccio and Jason S. Rathod of Migliaccio & Rathod LLP; Gary S. Graifman and Melissa R. Emert of Kantrowitz Goldhamer & Graifman PC; and Scott. D Hirsch of Scott Hirsch Law Group.
The Block and Cash App class action lawsuit is Salinas, et al. v. Block, Inc., et al., Case No. 4:22-cv-04823, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Yes had to close out card and fight with customer service over charges made causing fees to linked bank account and was told to contact the companies that showed up as receipt of moneyโs which when googled the online limited info of recieving companies was dead end and spammed causing further information about me by trying to retrieve my funds from 3rd party scsmmers cash app had placed upon me to retrieve due to their breach.
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I was robbed. Cash app has a near impossible process to report the crime. Customer service was very interested and almost obstructive.
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Not only has my information been sold Iโve been hacked into my card so many times I had to close my account and that really hurt me because I was in transition from Chicago to California and then to Washington State and I did not have time or the energy or resources or a strength to continue to try and negotiate cash out for any of my money and it seems that thereโs not even records of the money that they had taken from me that never even showed up on my account and I know it it was there because I was there when it was transferred into my cash app account directly calling cash app or contacting cash app I get nothing but automated replies and no help itโs almost like cash up is the fraudulent perpetrator here. All I know is they definitely could use a revamp on theyr entire customer service department.
Iโm truly sick in by a lot of things the banks get away with it cash out really takes the cake right up there with Wells Fargo in my opinion.
So please emphatically PLEEEEZE add me!
James McDonough says:
March 10, 2023 at 8:55 pm
Please add me to the lawsuit against cash app for a year them scumbags slowly let someone cashout my account to a Wells Fargo account that is not mine they nore did I even have a account with them but BlockInc/CashApp claims it was me that I am lieing about it and that I live in Michigan when in fact I live in New Jersey where I was born and raised and still reside my bank since December of 2020 for about 5 years was Investors Bank (Just switched banks) but been fighting with Cash App for over a year for my $784.12 that was stolen from me have reported it to government sites to wit Cash App insist I did it and im still fighting with them about it but now in emails but this person is not calling me a liar (thank god) but because of all this situation being on going my mental health has drastically gotten worse plus I lost my section 8 housing have become homeless due to all this am still homeless but again to my disability I canโt stay in shelters or live in community living situations cause it endangers me and others so I been suffering out in the cold weather I am legally disabled and live on ssi and I do not want to end up back in the loony bin hospital or anything but I have not stopped fighting back with them in emails I will never give up on it till I get what Iโm owed and then some for my suffering and loses so ๐๐ปPLZ ADD ME TO THIS LAWSUIT๐๐ปPLZ
Please add me. Since opening a new CashApp over the summer, Iโve been hacked twice with 2 illegal transactions forcing my bank to step in.
Hi yes Cashapp has breached my data and multiple fraud and unauthorized illegal transactions to my account! Itโs still on going! Please contact me!
A scam advertisement was through my Nexflex service account information, I contacted my cash app service order to put a block on this extraordinary Smart Gadget affiliation and they ordered my funds to be returned to my account immediately, they denied my refund but claim they had blocked the account and one month later the same extraordinary Smart Gadget affiliation hit my SAME cash app account for the same amount and cash app render them my funds from my account again that was told to me a month before had been supposedly blocked and again cash app service denied the return of my money back to my account, I reorder a New card from them to change card number to the account and while awaiting that card another company hit my Old cash app account card account number called Great Merchandise Hardware, Never heard of such a company but anyway,I called cash app service because not only did this Great Merchandise Hardware hit the supposed to be blocked old account card of which Iโve torn up, but that company Great Merchandise Hardware, had hit twice back to back,I called cash app service again with Now another concerning the Old card account number that was supposed to have been cancelled on my to receive a new service card with cash app service, I asked cash app service still granting money from an old blocked account how am I to be protected with New card being issued to me, how are going to protect my monies and granting my money keeping of the Old card and new card account number merging and,I asked them whatโs going on are cash app service running a racketeering scams these unknown companies by giving them out our information and rendering them our funds and getting kick backs ??? I was so furious about now the representative told me โIโm hanging up on you right nowโ!!!!!!
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I have been hacked and robbed since August 2021. It started with cash app and has not stopped. I need help to figure out ally info us being leaked. Cash app will not help me. Itโs added up to.almost 10,000 stolen . It had ruined my life
Please add me. I received 2 letters stating I have been involved in their data breach