Equifax Breach: Class Action Litigation

May 3, 2018

On September 7, 2017 the consumer credit reporting agency Equifax announced a massive data breach affecting as many as 145.5 million people.

Our firm, in association with Branstetter Stranch & Jennings of Nashville, TN, filed a class action lawsuit against Equifax in the Western District of North Carolina. Because many other law firms in many different states filed similar lawsuits, in December 2017 the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated the many lawsuits into one, to be adjudicated in the Northern District of Georgia.

You do not need to become a plaintiff in order to be counted in the “class” of the class action as it goes forward.  If you were affected by the breach, you will automatically be part of the class-action lawsuit, unless you choose to opt out and sue on your own.

If the Equifax breach resulted in your losing a significant amount of money, you may want to consider hiring an attorney to represent you in your own lawsuit, or suing Equifax yourself in small claims court.

If you believe you might have been affected by the data breach, please see the FTC’s “What to Do” page.

Click here for the story from the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Click here for our press release.