Unopposed Motion Would Combine Data Breach Cases vs. LastPass

Two separately filed but related cases against defendants LastPass or its parent company Go To Technologies are “appropriate” for consolidation, said an unopposed motion Friday in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. The two cases, Debt Cleanse Group Legal Services v. Go To Technologies (docket 1:22-cv-12047) and John Doe v. LastPass (docket 1:23-CV-10004), involve common parties and allege “similar facts and legal claims,” said the motion. Consolidation will also enable the court to conduct proceedings in one combined action, ensuring they're “adjudicated efficiently,” it said. If consolidation occurs, the plaintiffs ask the court to appoint Migliaccio & Rathod and Zimmerman Law Offices as interim co-lead class counsel in the combined action, it said. The putative class representatives in each class action seek to represent similar classes of persons who used LastPass services and “were similarly impacted" by the data breach that is the subject of the litigation, said the motion. The class actions “arise out of the same circumstances” -- the defendants’ alleged failure to safeguard the plaintiffs’ highly sensitive information, “which was compromised” as a result of the data breach at issue in the lawsuits, it said.