Chili’s Customer Data Breach Classes Need Redo, 11th Cir. Says

A federal court in Florida must re-analyze its decision to green light nationwide and California class actions for Chili’s Grill & Bar customers who sued the restaurant chain after their credit and debit card numbers were stolen in a cyberattack, the Eleventh Circuit ruled.

The Middle District of Florida must clarify the boundaries of the classes in the litigation, which was filed in 2018 following a hack that affected 4.5 million customers’ data, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said on Tuesday.

Both classes were defined as including customers who “had their data accessed by cybercriminals,” the ...