August 19, 2025
A federal judge in Massachusetts filed an order last week granting final approval of a $150,000 settlement between law firm Cohen Cleary PC and a class of more than 12,000 former clients who sought relief after a 2022 cyberattack on the firm's computer systems.
January 30, 2025
A small Massachusetts law firm will pay $150,000 to settle a data breach class action in Massachusetts federal court seeking to hold it liable for a 2022 cyberattack on its computer systems, the class representative told the court Thursday.
December 05, 2024
A small Massachusetts law firm has settled a proposed class action accusing it of negligence leading to a 2022 data breach, a Boston federal magistrate judge said Thursday.
March 18, 2024
A small Massachusetts law firm will have to face an ex-client's proposed class action claiming it was negligent and failed to protect her and others' personal information from hackers who breached the firm's computers and stole data, a Boston federal judge has ruled.
May 31, 2023
A former client of a small Massachusetts law firm has fired back at the firm's attempt to dismiss her proposed class action filed after a data breach, arguing that the firm was negligent and she did suffer an actual injury.
May 15, 2023
A former client of a small Massachusetts law firm can't sustain her proposed class action filed after cybercriminals accessed the firm's servers because the lawsuit does not allege missteps in protecting sensitive information and fails to show anything more than "speculative risks of a 'future' harm," the firm said Monday.
April 17, 2023
A small Massachusetts law firm failed to protect clients' personal information from cyber criminals who breached the firm's computer systems and stole data, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Boston.