Should I join the Easyjet data-breach claim?

sheherezade

I have received an email from Easyjet saying my data was hacked so it seems I am eligible to join the claim led by the law firm PGMBM. I have tried working my way through all their documents but it is not completely clear whether I would be liable to pay out if the claim was lost. Is it worth joining?

TadleyBaggie

Chances are you would be liable for costs if the claim fails, certainly no payout. 

andygb

TadleyBaggie said:

Chances are you would be liable for costs if the claim fails, certainly no payout. 

It is normal practice for a law firm to arrange insurance for clients if it goes to litigation. This means that clients would never have to pay costs  if the case is lost.

TELLIT01

andygb said:

TadleyBaggie said:

Chances are you would be liable for costs if the claim fails, certainly no payout. 

It is normal practice for a law firm to arrange insurance for clients if it goes to litigation. This means that clients would never have to pay costs  if the case is lost.

Don't make any assumptions on what may or may not be in place to protect the clients.  Get the full T&C from them to ensure two things - (1) There will be no direct cost to you under any circumstances  (2) you can walk away from the action at any time with no cost implications.

ciderboy2009

Were you one of the 2000 people who had their credit card details compromised or one of the millions where it was just the basic information?

If the former then a claim might be feasible, if the latter then can you prove a loss from the data breach?

I will admit to laughing at their estimate of £2k compensation per person - that's never going to happen except, possibly, for those where the card details were compromised.

Murphy_The_Cat

OP are you looking for one of these ?

sheherezade

I did read the terms and conditions but even though I'm a well-educated, intelligent person (modest, too) I found it difficult to get around all the if's and but's. TELLIT01 said:

andygb said:

TadleyBaggie said:

Chances are you would be liable for costs if the claim fails, certainly no payout. 

It is normal practice for a law firm to arrange insurance for clients if it goes to litigation. This means that clients would never have to pay costs  if the case is lost.

Don't make any assumptions on what may or may not be in place to protect the clients.  Get the full T&C from them to ensure two things - (1) There will be no direct cost to you under any circumstances  (2) you can walk away from the action at any time with no cost implications.

sheherezade

Murphy_The_Cat said:

OP are you looking for one of these ?

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Alan_Bowen

Be aware they were claiming £18 billion on the basis of 9 million people joining the claim, in fact, the latest figure I saw earlier this week was that they had only 10,000 signed up. These are not UK lawyers, they take a percentage of the winnings, if there are any, their website suggests somewhere between 33 and 50% of the award. You need to read the documents received very carefully before signing up, the US is the home of group legal actions but the vast majority go nowhere, hence the reason for the big fees to cover their losses. The UK is very different if you cannot show any loss at all, I suspect the award is going to be small, and even smaller after they take their cut

Murphy_The_Cat

sheherezade said:

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Its a Compo hat

TELLIT01

The reason I say to be very careful is that there was a situation fairly recently where somebody agree to go with a no-win, no-fee lawyer but part way through decided they no longer wanted to proceed.  The legal firm then tried to sue her for the costs they had incurred to that point because they felt they had a high likelihood of winning.  I don't know if it was resolved, or the outcome.