Thursday, October 12, 2006

Class Action Suit Over ID Theft Tossed Out

Declan McCullagh and Anne Broach write on C|Net News:

A federal judge in Arkansas has thrown out a class action lawsuit against Acxiom, which exposed massive amounts of Americans' personal information in a high-profile Internet security snafu three years ago.

Even though a spammer had downloaded more than one billion records from the company, U.S. District Judge William Wilson ruled that there was no evidence that Acxiom's purloined database had been used to send junk e-mail or postal mail.

More here.

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