A new
putative class action lawsuit has been filed against the
hotel chain owned by Donald Trump in the United States District
Court for the Southern District of Illinois, after the hotel chain
revealed that it had been the subject of a data breach. The
suit asserts claims under "state consumer protection
laws" and "state data breach notification statutes"
of the states of the affected class members, along with claims of
negligence, breach of implied contract, and unjust
enrichment.
The suit claims that the Trump Hotel Collection failed to enact
appropriate computer safeguards to prevent the breach. The
complaint alleges that "the root cause of the data breach was
defendants' failure to fix elementary deficiencies in their
security systems, abide by industry regulations and respond to
other similar data breaches directed at retailers. Had
defendants acted competently, criminals would have been unable to
access the [personal identifying information]."
