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"A class action lawsuit has been filed against Schnuck Markets over a security breach that may have compromised the credit card and debit card information of 2.4 million customers between December 2012 and March 2013.<br /><br />In a suit filed April 25 in St. Clair County Circuit Court, Laverne Rippy of Granite City claims that in addition to having suffered compromised information, she and other members of a proposed class have incurred numerous hours canceling compromised cards, activating replacement cards and re-establishing automatic withdrawal payment authorizations from their old cards to their new cards.<br /><br />The security breach has been well publicized in the St. Louis and Metro-East media markets.<br /><br />Schnucks has said that only card numbers and expiration dates were stolen, not cardholders&rsquo; names, addresses or anything else.<br /><br />In a timeline released to the media, Schnucks said it found out about an issue on March 15, formed a response team on March 19, contacted police on March 20, and began to identify the problem on March 28. It communicated its concerns to the public on March 30.<br /><br />The suit claims that Schnucks failed to timely disclose the security breach to its customers, a violation of the Illinois Personal Information Protection Act.<br /><br />The suit also seeks damages under the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and Deceptive Business Practices Act.<br /><br />St. Louis attorney Jeffrey A. Millar represents Rippy and the proposed class.<br /><br />A motion to certify indicates the class would include Illinois plaintiffs who shopped at Schnuck&rsquo;s Illinois locations five years preceding the data breach. The motion also states that Schnucks violated a state statute by not advising their customers of their rights to obtain consumer protection help from the Federal Trade Commission.<br /><br /><i>St. Clair County case number 13-L-218</i>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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