Adkins

INTRODUCTION

18 This is a putative class action by plaintiff Stephen Adkins against defendant Facebook, 19 Inc. Plaintiff asserts a claim for negligence based on Facebook’s alleged faulty security 20 practices in collecting and storing plaintiff’s information. These faulty practices allegedly 21 allowed hackers to break into Facebook’s platform and pilfer the personal information of 29 22 million Facebook users worldwide, including more than four million users in the United States. 23 The operative complaint seeks relief in the form of a credit monitoring service for the victims, 24 in addition to compensatory, statutory, and punitive damages. The operative complaint also 25 seeks declaratory relief (Amd. Compl. at 48) (Dkt. No. 193). 26 A prior order walked through the coding vulnerability which allowed the data breach 27 (Dkt. No. 153). In brief, when three features on Facebook’s platform interacted, “access 28 tokens” became visible. Similar to a password, access tokens permitted users to enter their 1 by strangers. In this way, the hackers entered 300,000 accounts in September 2018 (Bream 2 Decl. ¶¶ 11–17; Amd. Compl. ¶¶ 95–97, 100) (Dkt. Nos. 97; 193) 3 The…