Lawyers are criticizing Equifax's attempts to have lawsuits against the credit-monitoring firm dismissed, Law.com reports. Counsel for the plaintiffs shot down a number of arguments made by Equifax's lawyers, including the notion no one was harmed by the breach and that it had any obligation to protect the information it had collected, especially since it gathered the information from third parties rather than from consumers directly. “In fact, the need for a duty in such circumstances is even more critical to ensure that companies have an incentive to spend the money needed to prevent the harm in the first place, rather than allowing them to shift the expense of failing to do so to innocent third-parties,” the plaintiffs' lawyers said in response to Equifax's bid for dismissal. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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