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by mhays 3474 days ago
Suing companies for this sort of thing isn't as easy as you'd think. One of the issues is damages, as in, you need to prove you incurred some sort of tangible harm or damage. This is usually calculated in financial damage. Currently there is a big split in the legal community about whether having your password or other info stolen, without any thing else happening (such as leveraging that information to get inside bank accounts and stealing money) is enough harm to satisfy the damages requirement because there was no financial damage done. Not saying I agree, but it's an issue.

If you can prove financial or other harm resulted from this, then yes, you'd might have a case.

Another avenue you could take is breach of contract or some similar claim. As in, you paid them and formed a contract according to their ToS, and their ToS (I assume) states they use at least reasonable security. Yet they didn't, which would be a breach of contract.