Legal Opinion
In re Equifax Inc.
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided January 28, 2019No. CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 17-CV-3463-TWTPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS W. THRASH, JR., United States District Judge
This is a securities fraud class action. It is before the Court on the Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss [Doc. 62]. For the reasons set forth below, the Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss [Doc. 62] is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.
I. Background
This case arises out of a massive data breach incident. On September 7, 2017, the Defendant Equifax Inc. announced that it was the subject of a data breach affecting more than 148 million Americans (the "Data Breach").1 Criminal hackers breached Equifax's Computer network and obtained a vast…
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