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Bojangles Employee Breach Lawsuit Advances
Coverage from Charlotte Observer, Databreaches, and others
A North Carolina Business Court judge allowed most claims to proceed in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Bojangles failed to protect employee data and delayed notifying workers after a 2024 breach attributed in court records to Hunters International.
The lawsuit alleges that more than 387,000 files containing sensitive employee information were taken and posted on the dark web, while employees were notified 274 days after the breach began. The ruling keeps claims concerning data protection, notification, implied safeguarding duties and potential unfair-trade violations alive, although negligence and invasion-of-privacy claims were dismissed.
The new version adds the court's more detailed merits ruling: most claims survive, but negligence and invasion-of-privacy theories were dismissed. It also introduces Hunters International as the alleged actor and confirms the alleged scope and timing of the breach response.