http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247309/Bank_abandons_place_in_class_action_suit_against_Target_Trustwave
By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
March 31, 2014
One of the two banks suing Target and security vendor Trustwave over
responsibility for one the largest data breaches in history has pulled out
of the lawsuit.
Trustmark National Bank, of New York, filed a notice of dismissal of its
claims on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois.
It had joined Green Bank of Houston in the class-action suit, which claims
Target and Trustwave failed to stop the theft of 40 million payment card
details and 70 million other personal records.
The suit may have wrongly named Trustwave as one of Target's IT security
contractors. After the suit was filed on March 24, Trustwave said it would
not comment on pending litigation and customarily does not identify its
customers. Many agreements with IT vendors and customers are confidential.
But on Saturday, Trustwave's Chairman and CEO Robert J. McCullen added
more clarity by writing a letter on its website saying Target did not
outsource its data security or IT obligations to the company.
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