Legal Opinion
Sovereign Bank v. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 18, 2005No. Civ. 1:CV-05-1150PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
CALDWELL, District Judge.
I. Introduction.
This case stems from a breach of the computer system used by defendant, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., a wholesale club retailer. The system was hacked and bankcard numbers were stolen, allegedly because the computer program BJ’s used to process card transactions improperly retained card numbers rather than merely keep them in the system only for the seconds required to validate the transaction.
Some of the numbers stolen belonged to customers of plaintiff, Sovereign Bank. Sovereign filed this lawsuit seeking damages, mainly for the cost of…
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Sovereign Bank v. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2008
- Lauren M. Pavlovich v. National City BankCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2006
- Conquest v. WMC Mortgage Corp.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2017
- Banknorth, N.A. v. BJ'S Wholesale Club, Inc.District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 2006
- Middleton v. Rogers Ltd.District Court, S.D. Ohio · 2011
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