Class Action Suit Filed Against Home Depot For Consumer Data Security Breach

ATLANTA, Sept. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Several Home Depot customers filed a class action lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, alleging that Home Depot failed to meet its legal obligation to protect their credit card and personal information and failed to timely warn them that such information had been stolen or that the security and privacy of such information had been compromised.

The complaint alleges that in late April or early May, 2014, computer hackers gained access to Home Depot's point of sale data network and stole the personal and financial information of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Home Depot's customers.  However, Home Depot did not tell its customers about this security breach.  Instead, the breach was only recently brought to light by a computer security blogger Brian Krebs in his September 2, 2014 blog post (http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/banks-credit-card-breach-at-home-depot/).

On behalf of themselves and all class members, Plaintiffs seek injunctive relief and damages suffered by class members as a result of Home Depot's actions, including for Home Depot's alleged violation of 38 States' data breach statutes. 

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SOURCE Harris Penn Lowry LLP