{"id":249,"date":"2015-08-13T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/08\/13\/neiman-marcus-ruling-makes-it-easier-to-sue-a-company-for-a-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:31:00","slug":"neiman-marcus-ruling-makes-it-easier-to-sue-a-company-for-a-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/neiman-marcus-ruling-makes-it-easier-to-sue-a-company-for-a-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Neiman Marcus Ruling Makes it Easier to Sue a Company for a Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neiman Marcus experienced a data breach in 2013 that exposed credit card information for 350,000.\u00a0And, as it is with every data breach, lawsuits ensued.<\/p>\n<p>The 7th Court of Appeals answered a lingering legal and legislative issue&#8211; whether any actual injury has to occur before suit may be filed. &#8220;Chief Judge Diane Wood, who said that fear of hackers in the future is not too \u201cspeculative\u201d for a day in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is expected to apply to both pending lawsuits realted to Sony &amp; Target data breaches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/07\/29\/data-breach-7th-circuit\/\">Fortune<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bna.com\/neiman-urges-full-n17179934524\/\"> \u00a0Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neiman Marcus experienced a data breach in 2013 that exposed credit card information for 350,000.\u00a0And, as it is with every data breach, lawsuits ensued.<\/p>\n<p>The 7th Court of Appeals answered a lingering legal and legislative issue&#8211; whether any actual injury has to occur before suit may be filed. &#8220;Chief Judge Diane Wood, who said that fear of hackers in the future is not too \u201cspeculative\u201d for a day in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is expected to apply to both pending lawsuits realted to Sony &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}