Another firm that filed in Oregon yesterday said they're seeking up to 70 billion in damages for clients nationally.

That's right, billion with a B.

I was just making fun of the info highlighted in the press release. If I have it right, the Target breach affected 41 million people. Helping them put it in the rear view mirror for ~$10 million is quite a service.

Maybe it was a different Target data breach?

That's how class actions work. The lawyers extract a fee from the perpetrator as protection against larger settlements/judgments. Perp limits their downside, law firm gets paid, consumers are left holding the bag.

AFAIK, one of our attorneys was involved in 2 with Target, one for $10mil and one for $13mil. We're also involved with Home Depot and other data breach cases. They scope of those breaches is much smaller than this one, by the way.

I'm just saying that some firms try. There's really nobody making them accountable otherwise.

This isn't Equifax's first data breach and the others are pretty recent too.