Epic Games Wins Arbitration Bid for Fortnite Breach Lawsuit (1)

A Fortnite user suing over a 2019 breach said to potentially expose the information of 200 million users must arbitrate his allegations of lax company data security, a federal judge in North Carolina ruled.

Epic Games Inc. argued that plaintiffs agreed to arbitrate such claims when they assented to the terms of service of the Fortnite product.

Judge Terrence Boyle of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina agreed. He stayed the case Feb. 1 while the parties try to resolve it.

Businesses such as Epic Games seek arbitration because the procedure likely takes the chance ...