Four major title companies fidelity national financial and its subsidiary mortgage loan repayment management company. lawn care After the company suffered a cybersecurity attack in late November, a class-action lawsuit has been filed against the company, alleging that the company failed to manage customer data and breached its contract.
The lawsuit was filed last Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Central California by LawnCare customer Teneika Tillis. The complaint states that Tillis filed the lawsuit “based on information and belief” that the attack included her personally identifying information.
“In the aggregate, the information Defendants have disclosed about the breach to date, including the data breach itself, its duration, the need to remediate Defendants’ cybersecurity, and the sensitivity of the affected data, is such that Defendants could reasonably “This proves that no action has been taken,” the complaint states.
Additionally, Tillis argues that as a result of the data breach, plaintiffs are “required to continue undertaking time-consuming and often costly efforts to mitigate actual and potential damages.”
The complaint also alleges that LawnCare should have notified consumers of its inadequate security measures after reporting the data breach around August 2022. “Thus, Defendants failed to take reasonable steps to protect the system,” the complaint states.
About a week after first reporting the attack, Fidelity announced that the incident was contained, but the company did not provide any information on the type of personal information the cybercriminals may have obtained or the number of customers affected by the incident. has not been revealed yet.
Immediately after the incident, ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat claimed responsibility.
In an online post last week, AlphV/BlackCat accused Fidelity of allegedly hiring incident responders from Google’s Mandiant division and threatened to release information about the data it collected.
Tillis is seeking a jury trial and damages that would provide “equitable relief with prejudgment and postjudgment benefits” to the plaintiffs and class members.
Mr. Cooperwas the victim of a cybersecurity attack in late October and is currently facing four class action lawsuits as a result of the attack.