DC Circuit Says Data Breaches Civil Suit Can Continue
A lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management over 2015 data breaches can go forward, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday in saying the American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union…
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have standing to go forward with a class-action suit. The breach exposed Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information belonging to more than 21 million people who were involved in federal background checks (see 1601070058). The D.C. Circuit disagreed with a lower court ruling that said affected federal employees weren't at risk, and dismissed OPM's claims of sovereign immunity. The agency didn’t comment.