Plaintiffs in a proposed class action over a data security breach at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc. swiftly appealed an Illinois federal judge’s dismissal of their suit on the ground they had not shown they had suffered actual harm.

Plaintiffs John Lewert and Lucas Kosner, who allege they were among the estimated 7 million customers whose credit or debit card information may have been exposed in a hack of the restaurant chain’s point-of-sale system, filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Dec. 12, two days after U.S. District Judge John Darrah threw out their consolidated complaint.

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