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Home Depot breach prompts class action in Canada, too

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Dissent

Richard Blackwell reports:

Martin Knuth has made so many purchases at Home Depot that he regards the store as “my second home.”

But the recent security breach at the home renovation retailer upset Mr. Knuth, a retiree who lives in Regina, Sask., so much that he volunteered to become the representative plaintiff in the first Canadian class action lawsuit against Home Depot.

Read more on Globe and Mail, keeping in mind that if American customers have to show concrete injury or imminent injury to have standing in any class action but it turns out that Canadians don’t, that could be an interesting situation.


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