Accellion Faces Consolidated Litigation Over Kroger Data Breach

File-sharing company Accellion Inc. will face consolidated litigation in California of 15 class complaints over the Kroger Co. 2020 data breach, after a federal judge ruled that all of the privacy claims filed are similar enough to handle in one proceeding.

The California company, now known as Kiteworks, was slapped with numerous lawsuits in 2021 after hackers in 2020 broke into Kroger’s files, which used Accellion’s file-transfer tool, and allegedly exposed customer and employee sensitive health data.

On Monday, Judge Edward J. Davila of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted plaintiff Grace Beyer’s motion to ...