Victoria’s Secret Customer Brings Data Breach Class Action (1)

Victoria’s Secret & Co. is facing a proposed class action alleging it was negligent in failing to protect the personal information of hundreds of thousands of customers in a May data breach.

The women’s clothing retailer breached its duty to implement adequate data security measures and failed to properly train staff or comply with industry-standard data-handling practices, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

The information exposed in the incident included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, state ID numbers, passport numbers, financial account information, digital ...