Lela Ames, Scott Hyman, Genevieve Walser-Jolly & Jack Altura Pen New Data Breach Class Actions Article

Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys Lela Ames, Scott Hyman, Genevieve Walser-Jolly, Jack Altura, and University of San Francisco School of Law student TaeVeon Le continue to affect the conversation on data breach litigation as it has matured over the last decade. Their article on “The Dark Web and Traceability in Data Breach Class Actions”, was published in the September 2026 edition of The Review of Banking & Financial Services. 

This Article follows another article published earlier this year in the Conference on Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report titled “Using the Dark Web to Defend Data Breach Class Actions”.

Data-breach class action litigation is maturing. Not only have the number of data-breach class action cases filed multiplied, but data subjects are typically the victims of numerous data breaches and the beneficiaries of participating as a class member in multiple class actions. 

While courts generally have wrestled with questions of standing, causation, and risk of identity theft, the existence of multiple-compromised data adds increased complexity to courts’ analyses and additional problems with data subjects’ efforts to bring and participate in data-breach class actions.

Click here to read the full article in The Review of Banking & Financial Services (subscription required.)