Home Depot has asked a federal court to dismiss the consumer filed law suit claiming damages from the company’s massive data breach last year.
Consumers filed a complaint against the company in early May, accusing management of “overarching complacency when it came to data security.” According to Home Depot, “all of the claims alleged in the complaint suffer from the same fatal defect found in the vast majority of other breach cases … they have suffered no actual or imminent economic injury that is fairly traceable to Home Depot’s alleged conduct.”
This is the first time Home Depot has responded to charges, following the data breach that compromised the payment card information of an estimated 56 million customers. They argue that all of the consumers have been reimbursed for their loses and that “none of the named plaintiffs’ purported injuries are traceable to Home Depot’s conduct.”