Notice Is Filed of Tag-Along Suit in Samsung Data Breach Litigation

Two Georgia plaintiffs and one in Illinois filed notice of a potential tag-along action Thursday to the multistate Samsung customer data breach litigation (see 2301040035). Oral argument is scheduled for Thursday before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s hearing on various motions to consolidate the cases and transfer them to a single judge. Six lawyers entered notices of presentation by the Jan. 3 deadline to appear at the oral argument. In their Thursday complaint (docket 3055) filed at the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington, plaintiffs Matt Davis and Lakia Morton of Georgia, and Zachary Chernik of Illinois, allege Samsung failed to properly secure and safeguard their sensitive and confidential personally identifiable information when an unauthorized third party stole customer data. The July data breach followed one in March, when an organization called Lapsus$ accessed and stole Samsung’s confidential data and published 190 gigabytes of it online.