7-Eleven joins a growing list of companies sued following a reported cyberattack by hacking group ShinyHunters, which allegedly obtained store franchisee documents in an April data breach.
ShinyHunters claimed it accessed over 600,000 records with personal information, according to two lawsuits in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. 7-Eleven told regulators that the compromised data was provided during the franchise application process.
Plaintiffs in the separate suits hail from Oklahoma and North Carolina, and aim to represent a class of individuals affected by the breach.
The cases are among the latest to allege that a company’s ...