For Victims of Evolve Bank and Trust’s Data Breach
If you are one of the millions of customers whose personal information was stolen due to a cybersecurity breach at Evolve Bank and Trust, please contact our firm about the theft of your personal identifiable data. This data breach has also impacted customers of Open Banking financial services platforms such as Affirm, EarnIn, Bond, and Visa that are themselves customers of Evolve Bank and Trust. Co-Vice Chairman Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, is leading our firm’s investigation on behalf of those affected by the theft of their personal identifiable data.
Judge Kevin Sharp
Co-Vice Chair and Co-Chair Public Interest Litigation
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Financial Institutions Have a Duty to Protect Your Personal Information
In June, Evolve Bank and Trust’s IT system was hacked and sensitive customer information was stolen. By law, fiduciaries like Evolve Bank and Trust must maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect customers’ sensitive banking and personal information. Because of the data breach, Evolve may be liable for the harm suffered by its customers.
Potential Legal Recourse for Evolve Customers Harmed by Data Breach
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight is investigating a class action lawsuit to hold Evolve liable for the data breach and its failure to take reasonable measures to protect consumers from such cybercriminal attacks, as required by law.
In June, Evolve’s IT system was infiltrated by the Russia-based cybercriminal group Lockbit 3.0. While Evolve shut down some of its IT systems shortly after the breach, Lockbit 3.0 was already posting data from the hack the next day, making customers’ PII available for cybercriminals to sell, buy, or exchange on the dark web.
The PII seized in the hack includes customers’ Social Security numbers, birthdates, account information and other personal information. Customers of Evolve’s banking partners – such as Affirm, Airwallex, Bond, Branch, Dave, Visa, EarnIn, and others – may also have been impacted by this security breach.
Financial institutions owe a duty of care that they will use reasonable means to secure and safeguard their customers’ information, prevent its unauthorized access and disclosure, guard it from theft, and detect any attempted or actual breach of its systems.
Our investigation is being led by Kevin Sharp, the Co-Vice Chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight and Co-Chair of the firm’s Public Interest Litigation Group. Kevin has nearly 30 years of experience both litigating complex civil matters on behalf of plaintiffs, and as a federal judge, having served on the bench from 2011 to 2017, including three years as Chief Judge, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
At Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, Kevin has secured tens of millions of dollars in settlements for individual plaintiffs and plaintiff classes. He has taken on corporate defendants in finance, Big Pharma, and the automobile industry, holding them accountable for abusing their public trust in matters involving the opioid crisis, age discrimination, and financial mismanagement.
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