OK Foods Must Face Proposed Class Action From Data Breach

OK Foods Inc., a large-scale chicken producer, must face a proposed class action stemming from a data breach which allegedly compromised employees’ personal information because of the risk of identity theft, a federal judge in Arkansas ruled.

Clarissa Coffey sued her employer in 2021, after allegedly learning that an unknown third party accessed an OK Foods email which contained the personal information of employees. Coffey, who had worked at OK Foods since 2016, says that employees’ names, birthdates, addresses, and social security numbers were compromised.

Although the poultry company tried to dismiss the suit by arguing that Coffey didn’t demonstrate ...