Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked

2020-05-26 16:22

A law firm that is already chasing British Airways now claims it is suing Easyjet for up to £18bn, intending to take a modest £5.4bn cut for itself, after nine million people's data was stolen from the airline's servers.

The no-win-no-fee firm, PGMBM, claimed in a statement today to have filed a case in London's High Court against the British airline.

It is demanding Easyjet pays £2,000 compensation per affected customer, giving a total of £18bn. Tom Goodhead, PGMBM's managing partner, said in a canned statement: "This is a monumental data breach and a terrible failure of responsibility that has a serious impact on easyJet's customers. This is personal information that we trust companies with, and customers rightly expect that every effort is made to protect their privacy."

If the firm wins, customers signed up for a slice of the Easyjet compensation pie will fork over "a maximum of 30 per cent of damages", giving the law firm up to a cool £5.4bn with which to do Scrooge McDuck impressions.

Easyjet has been asked for comment about the lawsuit.

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