A former Boyd Gaming Corp. employee has filed a lawsuit against the company over a recent cyberattack disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this week.

Scott Levy, identified in the lawsuit as a former employee living in Las Vegas, hopes to turn his complaint into a class action.

The five-count lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Nevada on Thursday, accuses Boyd of failing to prevent a data breach that could have released personally identifiable information, including names and Social Security numbers of current and former Boyd employees as well as Boyd customers.

Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming has not responded to a request for comment, but said earlier in the week that it would not respond further beyond the five-paragraph SEC 8-K filed Tuesday. Boyd has no

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