Wynn hit with more class-action lawsuits after data breach
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Two more class-action lawsuits have been filed in U.S. District Court in Nevada against Wynn Resorts Ltd. in connection with a cyberattack data breach Friday alleging the casino company didn’t do enough to protect customers’ private information.
The Las Vegas-based luxury resort company on Tuesday acknowledged the attack, but a spokesman said it has been assured the stolen data has been deleted.
The computer hacking extortion group calling itself ShinyHunters had set a Monday deadline for payment of a ransom, threatening to release all or some of the 800,000 files it allegedly stole from the company that contained the full names, emails, phone numbers, positions, salaries, start dates, birthdays and other personal information of Wynn Resorts employees.
Wynn officials say they won’t comment further beyond an emailed statement made Tuesday and the company says it won’t say whether it paid any ransom money. The company routinely does not comment on pending litigation.
There’s been no indication that customer information was stolen from Wynn databases.
Despite that, three class-action lawsuits have been filed in District Court with the first one entered the day after the attack. Since then, two more similar complaints were filed Tuesday by Henderson resident Drake Maynard and Las Vegas resident Tyrone Li. The initial lawsuit was filed Saturday by California resident Richard Reed. All the lawsuits are filed on behalf of all others similarly situated as Wynn customers.
The two new complaints were submitted by the same Las Vegas law firm, Stranch, Jennings & Garvey Pllc. The seven-count complaints allege negligence, negligence per se, unjust enrichment, invasion of privacy, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of implied contract and are seeking a declaratory judgment.
The lawsuits say despite having the financial wherewithal and personnel necessary to prevent the data breach, Wynn “nevertheless failed to use reasonable security procedures and practice appropriate to the nature of the sensitive, unencrypted information it maintained for plaintiff and class members, causing the exposure of plaintiff’s and class members’ private information.”
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