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Owners of Colonial Pipeline Hit With Class Action Regarding Allegedly Deficient Cybersecurity Following Hack, Showing All Data Breaches Carry Litigation Risk

By Kristin Bryan & Sarah Rathke on May 20, 2021
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This is a Cross-Post from Consumer Privacy World. Please contact Kristin Bryan with any questions.

Well, that took no time at all. On May 19, 2021, the first class action was filed against the owners of the Colonial Pipeline by a putative class of customers, based on alleged elevated fuel prices as a result of the cyberattack. Consumers are obviously the end-point of this and almost any supply chain, but there are bound to be B2B lawsuits as well, by entities at both ends of this critical supply chain point. We’ll be tracking these, so stay tuned!

Read the full article here.

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  • Blog:
    Global Supply Chain Law Blog
  • Organization:
    Squire Patton Boggs
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