Nate Raymond
(Reuters) - A US judge has cleared the way for the consumer demand for Target Corp at the end of 2013 rape say trade data compromise opened their personal financial information.
District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota on Thursday dismissed the allegations of the plaintiffs in some states, but the application of the aim of launching a class action project largely rejected.
Magnuson rejected the argument of the target consumers are not entitled to because they do not establish a violation.
"The applicants raise plausible allegations that the injuries suffered it" fairly traceable "to the finish line," wrote Magnuson.
Neither a target nor a spokesman for plaintiffs' attorneys responded to a request for comment.
Target that at least 40 million credit cards may have become compromised in the breach that resulted in the theft of data from over 110 million citizens ", such as email addresses and telephone numbers.
The decision follows a similar decision earlier this month by banks Magnuson go to a legal dispute over the money they spent to pay for fraudulent charges and the issuance of new credit cards and flow due to injury recover.
Decision on Thursday to consumer using the meta their credit cards or debit cards at the time of injury and had pledged their information so that unauthorized charges, lost count of access charges and the cost of credit monitoring.
In its decision Magnuson had complaints deceptive trade practices in three states, saying that a class action are not met for any damage due to laws that protect consumers in 10 other states.
Magnuson also dismissed claims data from our violate laws in nine states, after the applicant had withdrawn in another three, threw accusations of negligence by the laws of five states brought.
The case is in re: Target Corporation Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, the district court of the United States, Minnesota District No. 14-md-02522.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York, Lisa Von Ahn section)
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