Dynamic Accident Lawyers: Another Class Action Filed Against T-Mobile, Experian Over Hack

T-Mobile, Experian class action lawsuit Last week, another class action lawsuit was filed against T-Mobile USA Inc. and Experian North America Inc. over a data breach that potentially affected 15 million people.

Lead plaintiff Jennifer Leitner alleges that the companies fail to protect the personal information of millions of customers and responded inappropriately by offering limited credit monitoring services.

“Unlike credit card and bank account numbers, the compromised personal data does not expire,” Leitner alleges, arguing that limited credit monitoring services is not enough to protect hacked consumers from harm. “Plaintiff cannot change her Social Security number or her driver’s license number as a preventative measure, and she is now subject to the misappropriation of her personal data for years to come.”

On Oct. 1, T-Mobile announced that its customers’ data was lost in a hack on databases belonging to Experian North America Inc., which conducts credit checks for T-Mobile USA Inc. According to T-Mobile, customers’ names, addresses and dates of birth, encrypted Social Security and driver’s license numbers may have been lost to hackers when they bypassed encryptions in the Experian system.

According to the data hack class action lawsuit, T-Mobile offered two years of credit monitoring to its customers. Leitner argues that two years of credit monitoring is not enough to protect hacked consumers from harm. Leitner says that experts have determined that identity theft victims face significant harm for five to 10 years after a breach.

Leitner also alleges that she had determined that the hack had affected her and that T-Mobile and Experian failed to notify her that she was affected by the breach. The plaintiff also argued that it was not appropriate for T-Mobile to use Experian to monitor consumers’ credit in response to the breach since the hackers had breached Experien’s systems in the first place.

“Defendants are effectively asking affected persons to choose to trust in the very entities that placed them in this predicament: T-Mobile and Experian,” Leitner alleges in the data breach class action lawsuit. “That choice is no choice at all,” she concluded.

This class action joins another filed over the data breach earlier this month. In the T-Mobile data hack class action lawsuit, lead plaintiffs Brendan Moore and Matthew DeVito allege that Experian and T-Mobile were negligent in their duty to protect the confidential information of their customers. The plaintiffs filed their data hack class action lawsuit in Illinois federal court on Oct. 2 but abruptly dismissed their claims four days later.

By filing the data hack class action lawsuit in California, Leitner seeks to represent both a nationwide Class as well as a Class of customers from her home state as an alternative. Leitner alleges that Experian both negligently and willfully violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act and filed various state law claims against both defendants.

Additionally, on Thursday of last week, consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to determine whether the T-Mobile/Experian data breach affected all 200 million people whose information is held by Experian.

Leitner is represented by Gillian L. Wade of Milstein Adelman LLP, Bryan L. Clobes, Kelly Tucker and Daniel O. Herrera of Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP.

The California T-Mobile, Experian Data Hack Class Action Lawsuit is Leitner v. Experian Information Solution Inc., et al., Case No. 8:15-cv-01620, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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