Lawsuit filed after cyberattack at Oklahoma energy company

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – SandRidge Vitality is dealing with a possible class motion lawsuit for damages after a knowledge safety breach final October.

Legal professional William B. Federman of Federman & Sherwood stated he’s ready to symbolize over 12,000 present and former staff whose delicate private data was accessed, together with names and Social Safety numbers.

The plaintiff of the category motion petition, filed Could 27, is Guadalupe Granado.

“What’s at stake is the private identification data of tons of, if not hundreds of present and former staff,” stated Federman. “It’s negligence by SandRidge, the gross negligence of not maintaining this data safe. As soon as folks get entry to your private data it turns into a horrible downside that gained’t go away.”

The lawsuit has a discover letter from SandRidge stating that that they had a “community disruption” on Oct. 25, 2021, and “restricted data maintained on our community was accessed by an unauthorized actor.” It additionally stated they “don’t have any proof to recommend that any data was topic to precise or tried misuse on account of this incident.”

However Granado – a former worker – stated his credit score rating has dropped dramatically and he didn’t know why, however now believes it might be a results of the information breach.

“Folks at the moment are making an attempt to entry his data,” Federman stated. “For example, in the event that they’re making use of for unemployment, in the event that they’re making use of for loans beneath your identify, even when they’re not profitable in getting that mortgage, it’s nonetheless a ding in your credit score report and that causes you issues. Due to the breach, it’s our perception his credit score rating has gone down as a result of persons are making an attempt to entry and use the knowledge that was exfiltrated wrongfully from SandRidge.”

KFOR reached out to SandRidge for touch upon the lawsuit Tuesday, however have but to obtain one.