Data Breaches
As customers, employees, and patients, we assume the companies we entrust with our personal information will protect it. Yet, data breaches compromising personal information have become so pervasive. As of June 2024, 6,845,908,997 known records breached in 2,741 publicly disclosed incidents.
The most commonly breached sectors for data in the United States are healthcare, finance, business, and retail.
Almost everyone today has a credit card, mortgage, student loan or car loan. We have to provide private financial information to the lenders and in return expect complete and totally protection from hackers. Unfortunately, with technology changing on almost a daily basis, we are seeing more and more data breaches and thus private information being compromised. A criminal in possession of a stolen bank account number might be able to empty that account and transfer it to a different account.

A stolen Social Security number or other personal identifiable information can used to open new accounts, thus piling up debt and ruining the credit rating of the SSN owner. And the information found on a standard credit card application can be used in a wide variety of hacking and social manipulation schemes.
Hackers use stolen personal information in a variety of ways. A data breach can have serious consequences for individuals, businesses, and organizations. Some of the consequence may include:
- Criminals may use stolen data (e.g., SSNs, credit card numbers) to open accounts or commit fraud in your name
- Unauthorized transactions, drained bank accounts, or fraudulent credit card charges.
- Exposure of personal communications, health data, or other sensitive information
- Errors on your credit report, including inquiries from businesses you don’t recognize
- You may need to regularly check your credit and accounts for suspicious activity.
- Being denied for credit, even though you have good credit
- Leaked private photos, messages, or social media information can harm personal relationships or job prospects.
- Knowing your private data is in the wrong hands can lead to significant emotional distress.
- Once your data is out, scammers may target you with more convincing emails, calls, or texts.
Our lawyers have extensive experience with data breaches and we have a strong record of successfully holding those responsible liable for their actions.
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McShane & Brady also represents those injured in car/truck accidents, slip and falls, dog bites, nursing home neglect and HIPAA violations.


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