Samsung Files Notice of Potential ‘Tag-Along’ Data Breach Case

The class-action complaint filed Nov. 23 in U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh alleging Samsung failed to implement and follow “basic security procedures," resulting in the summertime data breach (see 2211250025), is a “potential tag-along action” in the massive fraud litigation against Samsung, attorneys for the company told the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in a notice (case 3055) Tuesday. The Pittsburgh case “involves common questions of law and fact with the actions currently under consideration for transfer,” said the attorneys, so it “should be considered as a related action for purposes of this pending multidistrict litigation.” Plaintiffs in the roughly 14 class actions are split between wanting the cases transferred to and consolidated in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco and those who want the District of New Jersey in Newark as the venue.