August 31, 2023
A California federal judge has scrapped a putative class action over a data breach that hit social media app Wishbone, finding that the plaintiff's assertions that the incident had put him at increased risk for identity theft and decreased the "inherent value" of his data weren't enough to give him standing to sue.
August 09, 2021
A California federal judge on Monday tossed a proposed class action over a massive data breach that hit social media app Wishbone, finding that the plaintiff had failed to adequately counter the app maker's assertion that the incident had exposed only "essentially useless" information.
June 01, 2020
The company behind the social media app Wishbone was sued Monday over a massive data breach in which the personal information of more than 40 million users, most of them teenagers, was purportedly marketed on the dark web and later leaked for free, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.