Motion Hearing Set for Pro Se Plaintiff's Default Judgment Motion in Data Breach Case
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer set a motion hearing for Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. for Venton Smith's Thursday motion for a default judgment against Jared Jeweler in a privacy lawsuit involving the 2019 Capital One data breach, said his…
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Monday text-only notice (docket 3:23-cv-02804) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The videoconference will be via Zoom and is open to the media and public. The pro se plaintiff claims his personally identifiable information was exposed in a 2019 Capital One data breach in which an Amazon Web Services employee stole data affecting about 106 million customers. Smith is suing more than 20 merchants, banks and credit reporting agencies, alleging negligence, unjust enrichment, breach of confidence and contract and violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law. Smith alleges at least 12 existing accounts were fraudulently accessed to buy unknown merchandise using his existing accounts for Jared, American Express, Best Buy, Capital One, Chase, Citibank, Macy’s and Nordstrom, for a total $92,300 in loans, merchandise and products.