Model Sues Law Firm Over Data Breach
A fashion model is suing Baltimore-based law firm Goldberg Segalla for allegedly exposing her personal data when filing records in a different data breach lawsuit.
Stephanie Hoffman claims the firm leaked her information twice on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) service, which provides electronic public access to federal court records.
Goldberg Segalla is representing Hoffman s former modeling agency, Major Model Management Inc (MMMI), in an ongoing proposed class-action lawsuit concerning an alleged data breach.
That suit, which was also brought by Hoffman, accuses MMMI of failing to adhere to state laws, industry standards and best practices when collecting and storing the personal information of the models it contracted with.
A fashion model has filed a lawsuit alleging that Goldberg Segalla exposed her Social Security number and other personal information in a PACER filing.
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Goldberg Segalla Leaked Data Breach Plaintiff s Info: Suit
Law360 (May 24, 2021, 11:10 PM EDT) Goldberg Segalla LLP negligently exposed personal information belonging to a woman pressing a data breach suit against a modeling agency the law firm was representing by failing to properly redact a filing in support of its bid to dismiss that dispute, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in New York state court.
Stephanie Hoffman claims that attorneys at Goldberg Segalla were negligent and showed a reckless disregard of [her] rights to privacy by failing to perform the necessary redaction of her home address, passport number and telephone number before publicly filing an exhibit in support of its motion to cut down.
May 25, 2021 at 12:24 PM
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Law firms must always be supremely cautious with private information, but you can’t help but think a firm would add that little extra attention to the task when their client has already been sued for a data breach. Not only would another leak damage the client’s reputation further, you already know that the plaintiff is
exactly the sort of person willing to sue over leaks.
Goldberg Segalla finds itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit after Stephanie Hoffman, the plaintiff in a putative class action against Goldberg client Major Model Management for a breach that “exposed their personal information, including place of birth, date of birth, nationality, permanent address, cell number, email address, Social Security number, signature, passport numbers and actual copies of Social Security cards and passports,” according to Law360.
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