DALLAS – Dallas attorney William B. Federman has filed a class action complaint on behalf of a Grand Prairie woman who claims Sonic allowed her personal identifiable information to be stolen.
The lawsuit, filed on Nov. 3 in the Dallas Division of the Northern District of Texas, states that Dometric Pearson and the fast food chain’s other costumers lost their PII to wrongdoers as a result of a cybersecurity incident which occurred on or around last Sept. 26.
According to recent court papers, Sonic announced that its “payment system had been breached and up to five million credit card and debit card accounts had been stolen.”
“This data is being sold on the black market,” the original petition says. “Criminals use the data to make fraudulent charges to Sonic customers’ accounts.”
It adds the eatery’s aforementioned payment system was more than 30 years old, stating many franchises’ systems have not received updates.
A jury trial is requested.
Dallas Division of the Northern District of Texas Case No. 3:17-CV-3045