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SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System is facing a class action lawsuit over a February data breach.
Richard Goss brought the lawsuit in federal court June 5 through the law firm Righetti Glugoski, claiming negligence on the part of SFERS. It is alleged the group failed to exercise reasonable care in securing, deleting and retaining the personally identifiable information of its members.
“Defendants knew or should have known the risks of collecting and storing PII and the importance of maintaining secure systems, especially in light of the facts that hacks seeking PII were surging in 2018 and on the rise in 2019, and the FBI issued warnings right under Defendants’ noses before the breach,” the lawsuit says.
Defendants knew or should have known that its security practices did not adequately safeguard Plaintiff’s and the other Class members’ PII, including, but not limited to, the failure to detect the breach.”
Part of the compensation sought by the class is credit monitoring. Also named as a defendant is 10Up, which allegedly held the information on its server.