Three Bay Staters are among Target shoppers who have filed nearly two dozen class-action lawsuits against the discount chain for allegedly failing to safeguard their credit and debit card information regarding a 19-day data breach by hackers.
Meghan Derba, a frequent Target shopper from South Easton, filed one of the lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Boston on Christmas Eve. "I did contact my lawyer, namely because I was just really shocked that such a large company could let something like this happen," she said. "I just want to make sure that my money that I support my family with isn't in jeopardy."
The lawsuits come as Reuters — citing a senior payments executive familiar with the situation — reported Wednesday that customers' encrypted personal identification numbers (PINs) were among the exposed data to which hackers had access during the cyber attack that affected as many as 40 million debit and credit cards of Target customers.
Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder told Reuters that "no unencrypted PIN data was accessed," and there was no evidence that PIN data has been "compromised."
The data breach is likely to cost Target millions of dollars, given the experience of TJX Cos. In 2009, the Framingham owner of the T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods chains, agreed to pay $9.75 million and implement a new information security program after a data breach in 2005 and 2006 that affected at least 45.7 million card users. It also paid out millions to settle class-action lawsuits.
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