Data Breaches, Class Actions and Ambulance Chasing
This post has been brewing for a while, but the catalyst finally came after someone (I'll refer to him as Jimmy) recently emailed me regarding the LOQBOX data breach from 2020. Their message began as follows: I am currently in the process of claiming compensation for a severe data breach which occurred on the 20th February 2020Now I'll be honest - I had to Google this one. There are so many data breaches today that I have trouble keeping track of them and there was nothing noteworthy whatsoever about this one that caused it to stick in my memory. Turns out there were a bunch of tweets mentioning me in this context in Feb 2020, but that was all. The...