Honeywell class action claims data breach exposed personal information of 100,000+

Honeywell class action overview: 

• Who: Plaintiff Lynne Curran filed a class action lawsuit against Honeywell International Inc. 
• Why: The plaintiff claims that Honeywell did not do enough to protect personal identifying information from a data breach.
• Where: The Honeywell class action was filed in federal court in North Carolina.

A new class action lawsuit against Honeywell claims the company didn’t do enough to protect the personal information of customers from being stolen in the Honeywell data breach.

The lawsuit, filed by plaintiff Lynne Curran, argues Honeywell’s lack of data security contributed to more than 118,000 customers having their data stolen prior to the end of May 2023.

“Defendant disregarded the rights of plaintiff and class members by intentionally, willfully, recklessly, or negligently failing to take and implement adequate and reasonable measures to ensure that plaintiff’s and class members’ PII (personally identifiable information) was safeguarded, failing to take available steps to prevent unauthorized disclosure of data, and failing to follow applicable, required and appropriate protocols, policies and procedures regarding the encryption of data, even for internal use,” the Honeywell data breach class action says.

The plaintiffs have lost time monitoring their credit and also have risk for future identity theft based on the personal information that was stolen, the class action says.

Honeywell says it didn’t learn details of data breach until Aug. 28, class action says

Honeywell sent notice to customers stating it didn’t learn of the Honeywell data breach until Aug. 28 and reviewed the data breach after that. But the plaintiff claims Honeywell still hasn’t told customers exactly what data was stolen and what malware was used to steal it.

Personal information stolen in a data breach can be re-sold for $40 to $200, while bank details can sell from $50 to $2,002 and a stolen credit or debit card number can sell for $5 to $110 on the dark web, according to the lawsuit.

A class action lawsuit last year claimed Honeywell International imposed an “unlawful” COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees and required exempt workers to wear color-coded “identification badges.”

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The plaintiff is represented by David M. Wilkerson of The Van Winkle Law Firm and Kevin Laukaitis of Laukaitis Law LLC. 

The Honeywell class action lawsuit is Curran v. Honeywell International Inc., Case No. 3:23-cv-00594, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

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