What is a Virgin Media data breach case?

If you’ve yet to start your Virgin Media data breach case as a victim of the breach, and you want to know more about what this entails, here’s some advice for you.

We’ll cover the key things about what you need to know, such as what a case is, what you could be claiming for, and whether you can win. We’ll explain the law and what kinds of things you could be entitled to claim damages for and why we offer the No Win, No Fee arrangements that we do.

As a leading firm of consumer action and data breach compensation experts, this kind of action is what we specialise in. We represent thousands of clients with over 40 data actions a part of our history; that’s experience that speaks for itself.

What is a Virgin Media data breach case?

A Virgin Media data breach case is a claim for compensation as a victim of the recently discovered data breach. The information for around 900,000 people was left exposed on an unsecure database between April 2019 and February 2020. The breach was discovered by a third-party security researcher, and we know that at least one other unknown third-party has accessed the data.

Virgin Media has notified victims that they’re affected. Anyone that has received confirmation that their information has been exposed could now be entitled to make a claim for compensation. The GDPR allows data breach victims to claim damages, and anyone that has been notified that they’re involved should be eligible to claim.

A legal case is where we can pursue damages for you as a victim of the breach. As there are so many people affected, we have launched a Group Action. This is where claims for compensation can come together as part of one united front, and there’s a lot to be said when it comes to strength in numbers.

What are you claiming?

In terms of what you’re claiming for in a Virgin Media data breach case, there are usually two key areas we can look at:

• General Damages: for the distress suffered as a result of the loss of control of your personal information; and
• Special Damages: for any losses and expenses incurred.

Hopefully, most people won’t suffer any form of actual monetary loss, but this doesn’t mean that you cannot make a claim. It can be incredibly distressing to lose control of your personal and private information, and this is what the General Damages can be for. The law entitles victims to be able to claim for this, and it’s likely that most people who place a case with us will be asking for compensation for the distress element.

Victims could be eligible to claim up to an estimated £5,000.00 based on initial provisional reviews of how much cases could be worth. It could be less, or it could be more; we can’t know the particulars for sure at this early stage of things. As a firm representing thousands of data breach victims with many cases settled, we regularly recover damages in excess of this early estimation as well.

Will the compensation action succeed?

We’re representing clients who place their claim with us on a No Win, No Fee basis, and we’re now acting for a large group of Virgin Media victims.

We would not take this kind of action and work in this way unless we were confident that we can win the action. Given what happened, we believe that we can establish a case of negligence against Virgin Media, and this can pave the way for people to be able to claim damages.

To start your Virgin Media data breach case, just head over to the main part of the website here and complete the forms. It doesn’t take long at all to get started.

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