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Hospitality Staffing Solutions lawsuit overview:
- Who: Plaintiff Joshua Cariola filed a class action lawsuit against Hospitality Staffing Solutions LLC.
- Why: The staffing company allegedly failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive employee data, leaving it vulnerable to a cyberattack.
- Where: The Hospitality Staffing Solutions lawsuit was filed in Georgia federal court.
Hospitality Staffing Solutions LLC is facing a class action lawsuit in the wake of a targeted cyberattack that allegedly compromised the highly employee data of more than 100,000 employees and former employees.
The information compromised in the data breach includes personally identifying information (PII) such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and financial account information, the Hospitality Staffing Solutions lawsuit explains.
Hospitality Staffing Solutions lawsuit says company failed to adequately protect employee data
Plaintiff Joshua Cariola claims that Hospitality Staffing Solutions maintained its computer system and network in a manner that left it vulnerable to cyber attacks and failed to take steps to protect employees’ PII from a potential data breach.
By failing to adequately protect employees’ PII, the staffing company failed to comply with industry standards and with Federal Trade Commission guidelines for data security practices, Cariola alleges.
“Armed with the private information accessed in the data breach, data thieves can commit a variety of crimes” in the putative class members’ names, such as opening bank accounts, taking out loans, obtaining medical services, filing fraudulent tax returns, and giving false information to police during arrest, the Hospitality Staffing Solutions lawsuit says.
As a result, those affected by the Hospitality Staffing Solutions data breach have suffered and will continue to suffer injuries such as “loss of time, mitigation expenses, and anxiety” over the potential misuse of their PII, Cariola alleges.
Plaintiff says he lost time and money due to Hospitality Staffing Solutions data breach
Cariola says he received a letter from Hospitality Staffing Solutions dated August 1 informing him about the data breach, in which unauthorized actors reportedly accessed employees’ PII during a cyberattack between March 2 and June 2.
The letter notified him that he could reach out to the Federal Trade Commission and/or his state’s attorney general for more information about how to protect himself from identity theft.
On June 22, Cariola says he found out $1,500 had been deducted from an account that he provided to the staffing company in order to receive his pay. To date, he says he has not been reimbursed for this money, and he has spent significant time and money dealing with the harms posed by the data breach.
The Hospitality Staffing Solutions lawsuit asserts claims for negligence, breach of implied contract, unjust enrichment, and breach of fiduciary duty.
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Cariola is represented by James M. Evangelista of Evangelista Worley LLC and Carl V. Malstrom of Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLC.
The Hospitality Staffing Solutions lawsuit is Joshua Cariola v. Hospitality Staffing Solutions LLC, Case No. 1:23-cv-03689-AT, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division.
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