A federal judge considered how best to combine hundreds of lawsuits against Atlanta-based credit agency Equifax in the first hearing about class-action complaints against the company on Tuesday.
Banks, consumers and small businesses are suing the credit agency after a massive data breach exposed personal information like social security numbers and birthdates of 147.9 million people in 2017.
A federal courtroom in Atlanta was packed Tuesday morning with more than two dozen attorneys. Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Thomas W. Thrash assigned a leadership team of 26 attorneys earlier this year to represent more than 371 class-action complaints across the U.S. that have been filed against Equifax.
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