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Corporations that collect and store your personal information have a legal duty to protect it. When negligence results in a breach, you may be entitled to compensation — even if you haven’t suffered direct financial loss yet. Fill out the form for more information »
🔐 Multiple Active Breach Investigations
👥 Hundreds of Millions Affected Nationally
📍 California & Federal Courts
Multiple Class Actions — Active & Recruiting
CCPA · CPRA · Negligence · Breach of Contract
Active
$100–$750 per person
(no harm proof required under CCPA)
Hackett Law Firm is actively investigating data breach class actions against corporations that negligently allowed the personal, financial, and medical information of millions of Americans to be stolen by hackers. Under California law — which includes the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) — residents have strong rights when companies fail to protect their data, including the right to pursue compensation without proving specific financial harm.
“A company’s legal obligation to compensate individuals whose personal information was exposed due to negligent data security practices — including failure to encrypt sensitive data, inadequate access controls, or failure to patch known vulnerabilities.”
Active breach investigations currently being pursued:
🏥 Change Healthcare (UnitedHealth)
📱 AT&T Wireless
🏦 Equifax / Credit Bureaus
🏥 Kaiser Permanente
Data breaches now affect hundreds of millions of Americans annually. Unlike older hacking incidents that targeted passwords, modern mega-breaches expose Social Security numbers, medical histories, financial records, and biometric data — information that cannot be changed and creates lifetime identity theft vulnerability. Despite this, many corporations continue to store sensitive data with inadequate encryption, outdated access controls, and known unpatched vulnerabilities.
California’s comprehensive data privacy laws — among the strongest in the nation — create clear private rights of action for breach victims. Hackett Law Firm actively monitors emerging breaches and pursues class actions on behalf of California residents whose data has been compromised.
The harm from a data breach extends far beyond a stolen credit card number. When Social Security numbers, medical records, and other immutable personal data are exposed, victims face years or decades of elevated identity theft risk, ongoing monitoring costs, and the psychological burden of knowing their most sensitive information is in criminal hands.
California’s CCPA and CPRA provide some of the strongest data breach remedies in the nation. California residents whose non-encrypted or non-redacted personal information was exposed in a breach may pursue statutory damages of $100 to $750 per consumer per incident — without needing to prove actual financial harm. This is a critical distinction: you don’t need to have suffered identity theft to have a viable claim.
Additionally, if you received a breach notification letter from a company, that letter is a strong indicator that your data was compromised and that a class action may already be underway. Contact our office to determine whether you are a class member in any existing case.
Our legal team pursues data breach claims under California’s CCPA/CPRA, negligence, breach of implied contract, and unjust enrichment theories. We allege that breached companies failed to implement reasonable security measures — often violating their own privacy policies and industry standards — and that this failure directly caused the exposure of plaintiffs’ personal information.
Class certification is common in data breach cases because the core legal question — whether the defendant’s security was inadequate — applies equally to all class members, making these cases well-suited for consolidated resolution.
Complaint 01/26/26
In no case will any class member ever be asked to pay any out-of-pocket sum. Hackett Law Firm handles all data breach class actions on a contingency fee basis — we only get paid if and when we recover compensation for the class. In the event a settlement or judgment is reached, the court approves all legal fees from the recovery fund. You pay nothing upfront, ever.