IN RE TJX COMPANIES RETAIL SEC. BREACH LITIGATION

Civil Action No. 07-10162-WGY.

524 F.Supp.2d 83 (2007)

In re TJX COMPANIES RETAIL SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

October 12, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet G. Abaray, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, OH, William A. Baird, Launa Nicole Everman, Wayne S. Kreger, Milstein Adelman and Kreger LLP, Santa Monica, CA, John Michael Barclay, Richard P. Rouco, Whatley Drake & Kailas LLC, Birmingham, AL, Patrick J. Sheehan, Whatley Drake & Kallas, Boston, MA, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Whatley Drake & Kailas LLC, New York, NY, F. Inge Johnstone, The Lamb Firm LLC, Birmingham, AL, Louis Cooper Rutland, Jr., Rutland Law Firm LLC, Union Springs, AL, Ben Barnow, Barnow & Associates, P.C., Aron David Robinson, Law Office of Aron D. Robinson, Erich Paul Schork, Barnow and Assoc., PC, Chicago, IL, James R. Byrne, William H. Champlin, III, Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn LLP, Hartford, CT, Michael G. Caldwell, Tyler Cooper & Alcorn LLP, New Haven, CT, Richard L. Coffman, The Collins Law Firm, Guyte P. McCord, III, McCord, Bubsey & Ketchum, Tallahassee, FL, Richard Lyle Coffman, The Coffman Law Firm, Beaumont, TX, Michael G. Crow, Crow Law Firm, LLC, New Orleans, LA, Gregory Louis Davis, Greg Davis LLC, Montgomery, AL, Danielle Disporto, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY, Robert E. Ditzion, Shapiro, Haber & Urmy LLP, Boston, MA, Michael T. Fantini, Jon J. Lambiras, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, William S. Fish, Jr., Tyler Cooper & Alcorn LLP, Hartford, CT, Benjamin A. Solnit, Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, LLP, New Haven, CT, Kristen Marquis Fritz, Robert T. Naumes, Thornton & Naumes, LLP, Boston, MA, Patrick E. Geraghty, Geraghty, Dougherty & Edwards, P.A., Ft. Myers, FL, Lester L. Levy, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY, Thomas G. Shapiro, Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP, Boston, MA, Jordan L. Lurie, Zev B. Zysman, Weiss & Lurie, Los Angeles, CA, Michael M. Malinowski, Michael M. Malinowski, PLC, Grand Rapids, MI, Leigh A. Parker, Weiss & Lurie, Los Angeles, CA, James R. Patterson, Harrison, Patterson & O'Connor, San Diego, CA, Ralph K. Phalen, Attorney at Law, Kansas City, MO, Eric M. Quetglas-Jordan, Quetglas Law Office, San Juan, PR, Michele F. Raphael, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY, Kevin Barry Rogers, Law Offices of Kevin Rogers, Chicago, IL, Sherrie R. Savett, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Jonathan Shapiro, Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin, Boston, MA, Thomas M. Sobol, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Cambridge, MA, John S. Steward, Burstein Law Firm P.C., Clayton, MO, John E. Suthers, Savannah, GA, E. Kirk Wood, Birmingham, AL, John R. Wylie, Futterman, Howard, Watkins, Wylie & Ashley, Chicago, IL, Archie C. Lamb, Jr., Law Offices of Archie C. Lamb, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Richard D. Batchelder, Jr., Seth C. Harrington, Douglas Meal, Brian R. Blais, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA, Brant M. Laue, Kansas City, MO, Steven P. Mandell, Stephen J. Rosenfeld, Mandell Menkes & Surdyk LLC, Chicago, IL, Harry Rosenberg, Phelps & Dunbar, LLP, New Orleans, LA, C. Bradford Marsh, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Heirs, Atlanta, GA, James R. Carroll, Nicholas I. Leitzes, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Boston, MA, Robert N. Webner, Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP, Columbus, OH, William Breek Weigel, Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati, OH, Christopher P. Connors, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Chicago, IL, Marcus R. Mumford, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles, CA, John E. Goodman, David G. Hymer, Michael R. Pennington, Michael F. Walker, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, AL, Margaret Diane Mathews, Akerman Senterfitt, Tampa, FL, Malcome A. Heinicke, Munger, Tolles & Olson, San Francisco, CA, Darrel J. Hieber, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Cary B. Lerman, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, James C. Huckaby, Jr., Christian & Small, LLP, John W. Scott, Scott, Dukes & Geisler, PC, Birmingham, AL, Teri-Ann E. Nagata, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, John Michael Pickett, Young Pickett & Lee, Texarkana, TX, Mark Szpak, Harvey J. Wolkoff, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA, for Consolidated Defendants.

Margaret M. Pinkham, Paul W. Shaw, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, Boston, MA, for Interested Party.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In what has been described as the largest retail security breach ever, criminals hacked into the computer systems of TJX Companies, Inc. ("TJX") and compromised the security of at least 45,700,000 customer credit and debit accounts. See Joseph Pereira, Breaking the Code: How Credit-Card Data Went Out Wireless Door...

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