And it's go, go, go for class-action lawsuits against Equifax after 148m personal records spilled in that mega-hack

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/29/equifax_lawsuits_approved/

By Rebecca Hill
The Register
29 Jan 2019

A US judge has given the go-ahead for a set of consolidated lawsuits 
against credit agency Equifax regarding its 2017 mega-hack.

In a series of orders handed down in a Georgia federal district court on 
Monday, the evocatively named Judge Thomas Thrash Jr said that legal 
challenges from payment card issuers and ordinary citizens can proceed 
against Equifax. A class-action lawsuit brought by ten "small businesses" 
– which included corporations and limited liability companies – was 
denied, though. The small biz owners can join in with the consumers.

In effect, payment card issuers are going ahead as one set of lawsuits, 
and normal folk are bunched into another set, against Equifax. The credit 
agency had sought to dismiss the claims against it.

The lawsuits were all filed after the credit reference agency admitted in 
2017 that some 148 million personal records - including a mix of names, 
social security numbers, taxpayer ID numbers, and credit card numbers and 
expiry dates - were stolen by database hackers.

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