One plaintiff is a former law student at Mercer, while another is a professor at Yale School of Medicine who taught a course at Mercer in 2016 and 2018. Another, a former student who stayed anonymous over privacy concerns, said he suffered from fraudulent credit card charges after the data breach. None of the three lawsuits, which contend more than 93,000 people were caught up in the data breach, have been certified as class actions yet. They all allege that Mercer improperly delayed informing affected individuals and failed to have adequate cybersecurity defenses.
