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How do you sue an unknown hacker who steals data through the company web site?

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 7 2011

In Liberty Media Holdings, LLC. v. Does 1-59, 2011 WL 292128 3 (S.D.Cal. Jan. 25, 2011) unknown individuals hacked into Liberty Media Holdings’ web servers and obtained “certain motion pictures” that it “reproduced and distributed . . . onto their local hard drives and other storage devices.”

Facebook’s lawsuit protects its users against a massive spamming scheme

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 31 2011

On January 26, 2011, the federal district court in the Northern District of California granted Facebook a default judgment against Philip Porembski and PP Web Services LLC for obtaining “login credentials for at least 116,000 Facebook accounts without authorization” and for sending “more than 7.2 million spam messages to Facebook users.”

Sarah Palin hacker’s conviction stands for accessing her Yahoo email account

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 20 2010

The college student David C. Kernell who was convicted by a Chattanooga, Tennessee jury of various federal crimes including a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) for accessing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account will be sentenced on October 29, 2010

Is it permissible for a lawyer to befriend a witness on Facebook in order to gather information for a lawsuit?

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2010

Ever worry that what you do on a social networking site could be used against you in a court of law?

Investigating ways to make website more secure constitutes loss under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2010

A federal court in Ohio last week held that the cost of investigating ways to make a website more secure after an authorized access into the website in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") constitutes "loss" to meet the $5,000 jurisdictional amount for loss under the CFAA

Nebraska court: the CFAA is not constitutionally vague

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 15 2010

How do semi-nude photos, suicide and a possible decision by the US Supreme Court relate to a Nebraska decision handed down last month on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA")?