Epik Data Breach – Class Action Investigation
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Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson Smith is investigating a potential class action lawsuit related to reports that the domain registrar and web hosting company, Epik, was the victim of a recent data breach involving the personal data of 15 million Epik customers and non-customers. In an email that Epik sent to its users notifying them of the breach, it reported that the hackers obtained “payment information including credit card numbers, registered names, usernames, emails, and passwords.” As such, Epik has instructed its users to “contact any credit card companies that [they] used to transact with Epik and notify them of a potential data compromise to discuss your options with them directly.”
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) requires businesses to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect consumers’ personal information, and is violated any time a data breach reveals a consumer’s “[a]ccount number or credit or debit card number, in combination with any required security code, access code, or password that would permit access to an individual’s financial account.” Civ. Code § 1798.150(a)(1); Civ. Code § 1798.81.5(d)(1)(A).
If you have been notified—or have reason to believe—that your personal information may have been compromised, please contact the attorney(s) listed below.
Attorneys for this case:
Benjamin F. Johns
Mark B. DeSanto
Samantha E. Holbrook
About the firm:
Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP (CSK&DS) is a leading national class action law firm which specializes in prosecuting complex federal and state class action litigation throughout the nation. We seek to obtain justice for our clients, ensuring their rights are vindicated and their interests are protected. Our experienced and dedicated litigators are ready to advance the interests of clients, and the rights of consumers and shareholders, by recovering the money they have lost, and obtaining the relief to which they are entitled. To achieve the best result for our clients, we are prepared to go to trial on every case. We will not settle unless it is in our clients’ best interests to do so.