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Ca: Class action suit launched against Dell after data breach led to years of scam calls

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Dissent

David Paddon reports:

A proposed class action suit has been launched against Dell Technologies on behalf of thousands of Canadians whose personal information was compromised in a data breach.

According to a claim filed in a Nova Scotia court, the suit’s proposed representative plaintiff is seeking compensation for two years of scam calls and emails he received after a 2017 data breach exposed information about him and more than 7,000 other Dell customers.

Read more on  Global News .

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