The First Circuit has held in John Anderson, et al., v. Hannaford Brothers Co., that the reasonably foreseeable costs of mitigating potential losses from a data breach constitute cognizable harm under Maine law, and therefore can support a negligence or breach-of-implied-contract action against a company that suffered the breach.
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November 12 2011
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