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In order to file a successful lawsuit you must show damages. Simply not being able to login does not rise to the level necessary to show harm.
by blackflame7000 10y ago
In order to file a successful lawsuit you must show damages. Simply not being able to login does not rise to the level necessary to show harm.
- leesalminen 10y agoOf course. That bit was just the anecdotal evidence provided by a non-technical person to indicate the compromise was "bad". Administrators at the school have now informed students that personal (SSN #, address, phone, work history) and financial (loans) information has been extracted by an unauthorized party.
- blackflame7000 10y agoHonestly the same thing happened to me while an undergrad at UCLA. Their health care system was breached exposing a lot of PII. All I got was free credit monitoring for a year. There might have been a class action suit filed/ongoing but I don't expect to see a dime. Not sure there is much recourse aside from something drastic. I expect someday not to long from now someone will come up with a better method than a non-random ssn for associating people with accounts.