Toretto
Toretto v. Mediant Communications, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 PHILLIP TORETTO, et al., Case No. 19-cv-05208-EMC
8 Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
9 v. MOTION TO DISMISS
10 MEDIANT COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Docket No. 24 11 Defendant.
12 13 14 I. INTRODUCTION 15 Phillip Toretto (“Mr. Toretto”) and Daniel C. King (“Mr. King”) (collectively “Plaintiffs”) 16 filed this suit as a putative class action. The Defendant is Mediant Communications, Inc. 17 (“Defendant”), a Delaware corporation that is employed by companies and mutual funds to 18 distribute materials to shareholders and coordinate shareholder voting. Plaintiffs’ claims stem 19 from a data breach that occurred in April 2019, during which hackers accessed Mediant’s business 20 email accounts and stole the personal information of thousands of shareholders, including 21 individuals’ names, genders, physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security 22 Numbers, tax identification numbers, account numbers, and various other…