Insurer Urges High Court To Resolve Circuit Split Over Data Breach Standing

( March 25, 2026, 7:55 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Writing that the lower courts “have yet to settle on a consistent standard” for Article III standing in data breach cases, an insurance group and its subsidiaries petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, arguing that the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals improperly expanded standing in a data breach class action by allowing a pair of plaintiffs to proceed based on the alleged disclosure of nonsensitive personal information by a third-party hacker, creating circuit splits and warranting review....