Settlement Reached in Gunster, Yoakley & Steward, PA Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit

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Gunster, Yoakley & Steward, PA, has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that claimed a data breach discovered in November 2022 was a direct result of inadequate cybersecurity on the part of the Florida-based law firm.

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In a joint notice filed on October 9, 2024, Gunster and the plaintiffs informed the court that they had reached an agreement in principle to resolve their dispute on a class-wide basis. The parties requested that the court pause the litigation as they finalize the terms of the settlement agreement.

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The data breach lawsuit against Gunster was filed in May 2024, and alleged that the law firm failed to protect the private information of about 9,550 individuals when an unauthorized actor hacked into its document management file system. Gunster’s notice to affected individuals says that cybercriminals had access to the system for several weeks before it detected the intrusion on November 27, 2022.

According to the defendant’s online notice of the breach, the incident compromised personal information about Gunster’s clients, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers and other government-issued identification numbers, financial account information and certain medical information.

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