Macmillan Publishers Facing Class Action in Wake of Cyberattack

A former employee of Macmillan Publishers, Inc. is suing the company for allegedly not doing enough to protect her personal information when it was hit by cybercriminals.

Victoria Batchelor sued Macmillan on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing the company of negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and more. The proposed class action says the company’s computer systems were “insufficiently protected” when company data, including personal information about its current and former employees, was hacked in June.

Macmillan “failed to adequately train its employees on cybersecurity and failed to maintain reasonable ...