Class-action lawyers have announced that there are plans for a lawsuit that would seek damages from a First Nations resort casino in Ontario that sustained a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of customer, employee and vendor information.
Lawyers from Charney Lawyers and Sutts, Strosberg are looking at $50 million in damages from Casino Rama, with plans to ask possible victims of the data breach to sign on.
“The class action will be commenced on behalf of employees, customers and vendors of the Casino Rama Resort whose confidential information was compromised by the privacy breach,” the lawyers told
National Post. “The proposed representative plaintiffs in the lawsuit are customers who gave the resort their confidential information, including financial information.”
Lawyer Ted Charney of Charney Lawyers said that the statement of claim would be filed in Superior Court this Monday.
Last Thursday, Casino Rama Resort issued a warning to its customers, vendors and employees, urging them to keep a close eye on their financial information. The casino said that it only recently discovered that it was the victim of a data breach.
The stolen data included the casino’s financial and security-incident reports, email details, payroll and client information, social insurance numbers, and dates of birth, among other things.
“The hacker claims that the employee information dates from 2004 to 2016, and that some of the other categories of information taken date back to 2007,” the casino said in a statement on its website. “We can confirm that certain employee and customer information was stolen.”
Casino Rama also warned that the hacker could publish the stolen data online for the public to see.
“This is a massive privacy breach,” Charney said in announcing the class-action lawsuit. “We still do not know the whole story but it looks like Casino Rama rolled the dice with employee, customer and vendor data, rather than invest in state-of-the-art security measures.”
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