Carnival Cruise Ship Operator Discloses Potential Data Breach

Carnival Corporation & plc Identifies Suspicious Activity On Its Network – Carnival Discloses Unsanctioned, Third-Party Access to Some Employee E-Mail Accounts Which Contained Carnival Guest Information 

Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware that according to a “Notice of Potential Data Breach” submitted by Carnival Corporation & plc (“Carnival Corporation”) to the California Attorney General, Carnival Corporation, “[i]n late May 2019 . . . identified suspicious activity on [its] network.” Carnival Corporation stated that “[i]t now appears that between April 11 and July 23, 2019, an unsanctioned third party gained unauthorized access to some employee email accounts that contained personal information regarding [Carnival Corporation’s] guests.”

Carnival Corporation’s “Notice of Potential Data Breach” stated that “[t]he types of data potentially impacted varies by guest but can include: name, address, Social Security number, government identification number, such as passport number or driver’s license number, credit card and financial account information, and health-related information.” [Emphasis added.]

Have You Been Impacted by A Data Breach?

If so, please either contact Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. Partner Michael Yarnoff, Esq., (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, [email protected], complete the form on the right or send an e-mail to [email protected] for a free, no-obligation case evaluation of your facts to determine whether your privacy rights have been violated and whether there is a basis for a data privacy class action.

Examples of the type of relief sought by data privacy class actions, include, but are not limited to, reimbursement of identity theft losses and of out-of-pocket costs paid by data breach victims for protective measures such as credit monitoring services, credit reports, and credit freezes; compensation for time spent responding to the breach; imposition of credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance, paid for by the defendant company; and improvements to the defendant company’s data security systems.

Data privacy class actions are brought on a contingent-fee basis; thus, plaintiffs and the class members do not pay out-of-pocket attorney’s fees or litigation costs.  Subject to court approval, attorney’s fees and litigation costs are derived from the recovery obtained for the class.

Kehoe Law Firm, P.C.