follow-up: Federal Court Slaps Data Theft Victims

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net>

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Tens of thousands of Old National Bancorp customers whose personal and 
financial information was hijacked by a computer hacker cannot recover 
damages from the Indiana banking institution who lost the data in 2005, a 
federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

In dismissing a proposed class action against Old National Bancorp, the 
7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said damages were unavailable to victims 
of data theft if those victims did not suffer economically.

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/federal-court-s.html
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