The breach of credit card numbers and customer names at Brooks Brothers Group Inc. wasn’t sufficient to create a future risk of identity theft, a federal judge ruled.
The sensitivity of stolen data and the circumstances surrounding a breach are guides for a court to decide whether plaintiffs can continue with data breach actions, Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California wrote.
Courts in leading cases have held that data breach claims aren’t necessarily ruled out just because Social Security numbers weren’t stolen, Gee wrote. In a review of the case, the overall ...
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