Barnes & Noble Turns Page After Class Data Breach Dismissal

Compromised payment card PIN pads at Barnes & Noble Inc. stores don’t present a harmful enough threat to allow consumers to recover damages (In re Barnes & Noble Pin Pad Litig., 12-cv-08617, dismissal 10/3/16).

Although the class plaintiffs stated sufficient risk of harm in their amended complaint to establish the basic step for a suit, they failed to establish sufficient injury tied directly to the data breach, Judge Andrea R. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Oct. 3 in dismissing the case.

The case stems from a fall 2012 data ...