Signed up along with 2 other members of my family who were caught in data breach 1.

I’ve just signed up today after having been caught in both. I hate this kind of thing but BA is acting in such an extraordinarily arrogant way that I actually want to see them be hauled over the coals.

I don’t particularly want money from them but I do want them to be forced to accept their wrongdoing.

I wrote to them after the first breach as I was frustrated then. Even as a GGL every year since the inception of GGL, I’ve been ignored and that’s frankly unacceptable. They could so easily have headed this off but chose to play the victim. Well I’ve had enough.

I signed up not for the money. IAB Walsh and BA Cruz need to be given due justice!

They’ve allowed our personal information to be stolen! And caused undue inconvenience.

Where is the lawsuit ft thread?
can you get the credit monitoring and participate in the class action?
are there any retribution concerns from joining it, like BA shutting down accounts?

I’m pretty sure the T&Cs allow them to close accounts whenever they want (in general they can run the scheme in any way they wish). I think that they are no more likely to close an account here than after a member makes a successful claim under EU261 or wins in CEDR / small claims court. Even though they might be able to do so I think even BA would find the adverse publicity too difficult to contemplate.
I signed up on September 19th and since I have an Avios balance of 7 I figure that I have little downside risk.

We should set up an FT class action, max 5% costs bigger payout... .

Im usually of the view that these no win no fee schemes are the scum of the earth vis a vie personal injury, PPI or indeed EU261 as indeed you can get 100% of the payout whilst risking of course losing but BAs we are the victim of criminals here bleating is making me sick.

I’ve only claimed once before when I had an accident at a train station and wanted The then rail track to make the station safer to prevent further accidents as I needed to use that station twice a day on my commute. My home insurance legal cover provided the launch pad for this and it was successful,

Back on topic seems there are a couple of firms offering Class Actions and this one is run by SPG Law. Nothing ventured nothing gained indeed I suppose I wouldn’t have got refunds of fuel surcharges 18 years ago when BA colluded with a Virgin if it wasn’t for class action so I’m going to sign up too.

It's kind of foolish not to sign up as it's a bet to nothing, but it's also naive to expect BA to be making statements to individuals or making gestures that might imply guilt. Whatever your status or historical spend.

Those people saying they just want it to be stuck to BA will be happy to know that that is exactly what GPDR does. And while BA are on the hook for 4% turnover everything they say or do will be subject to detailed legal review and staff will have been told to stick strictly to the agreed form of words. No exceptions. That means slow and tortuous comms. AMEX can react far faster.

I'm sure many people here are senior in organisations and would understand that that is how these situations work.

And also that 'there but for the grace of God...' Most if not all organisations are vulnerable to cybercrime. Most employees of those companies at some level create vulnerabilities usually for convenience day to day. BA happen to have been targetted because of its scale. but that doesn't imply they are unusually slapdash or that this is a result of cost cutting. This was a permissions/access hack, not an infrastructure problem (according to what is known).

I’m in. Caught in both original and second breach.

I signed up after being fobbed off by BA Customer Relations twice and only on the third getting a proper response which was basically go .... yourself, not even a token minimal Avios gesture for all the BAEC customers. To top it off a few weeks ago some lovely people tried to help theirselves to a non unsubstantial amount of my money, thankfully my banks IT is somewhat better than BAs.