The Houston Chronicle reports JPMorgan Chase Bank has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against hospitality company Landry’s for $20 million. Several of Landry’s venues suffered a data breach between 2014 and 2015 compromising customers’ credit card information. Landry’s refused to pay the assessment fees issued by Visa and Mastercard following the cyberattack. JPMorgan is suing Landry’s for violating a credit card–processing agreement both entities entered in 2008, where Landry’s was required to both comply with credit card security standards and to reimburse JPMorgan for “assessments, fines and/or penalties” from credit card companies to cover liabilities and the costs of handing out new credit cards.
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