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Court Issues Opinion in Altice Data Breach Suit


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March 9, 2021
On Monday, Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York issued an opinion in the putative class action suit resulting from a November 2019 data breach at television and communications provider Altice USA, Inc. denying Altice’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction but granting its motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim as to some of the claims made by the plaintiff. Additionally, the court deferred judgment on the motion to compel arbitration.
In November 2019, the opinion recounted, bad actors carried out a phishing attack on Altice, accessing email accounts after employees inadvertently disclosed their login credentials. The court noted that an investigation indicated that “one of the downloaded email inboxes contained a password-protected, but not encrypted, document with the names, employment information, dates of birth, social security numbers, and in some instances, driver’s lice ....

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