“U.S. lawyers filed 1,488 class-action lawsuits related to data breaches in 2024, up from 1,320 in 2023 and just 604 in 2022.” The Wall Street Journal reports:
A growing number of personal injury lawyers are adding data-breach lawsuits to caseloads, alongside traffic accidents, medical malpractice and dog bites.
The upswing is being fueled by a surge in cyberattacks, as hackers become more sophisticated at breaking into business systems with an ever-increasing cache of customer data. Driven by the rise of AI-powered phishing attacks, U.S. companies reported over 1,700 data breaches in the first half of 2025, more than double the full-year number of breaches reported in 2024, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. So far this year, companies have issued more than 165 million individual victim notifications, the nonprofit research firm said.
The deluge has personal injury law firms chasing plaintiffs within hours of a company’s data-breach notification, taking to Facebook, TikTok and other social-media platforms, lawyers and cybersecurity experts said. To get ahead of the pack, many new data-breach lawyers are equipped with online cyberattack alerts, customizable ad templates and ready-made legal paperwork, they said.
Read more at The Wall Street Journal.
