Valley News Correspondent
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Burlington — A Windsor County woman has filed a federal lawsuit against Equifax over its massive data breach that put private financial records in peril for at least 143 million Americans that had their personal information stolen during the summer.
Shirley Cole, who has lived in Ascutney for several years, along with Sandra Barrett, of Highgate Center, Vt., filed the lawsuit seeking unspecified compensatory damages and restitution from the massive consumer credit reporting agency.
The Windsor and Franklin county women also are asking a judge in U.S. District Court in Rutland to declare the case a class action lawsuit to include all other Vermonters similarly affected by the breach. As of Sept. 30, there have been more than 240 class action lawsuits filed against the company since it reported the breach earlier in September.
Vermonters have been placed “at an imminent, immediate and continuing increased risk of harm from identity theft and identity fraud,” the two women note in the lawsuit.
Equifax, including co-defendant Equifax Information Services, failed to alert millions of Americans about the data breach until Sept. 7 — about six weeks after the company became aware of the major incident, the plaintiffs maintain. They said the breach began in May and was uncovered on July 29.
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