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"Vets can't get damages for computer breach"

"Vets can't get damages for computer breach": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "Two Vietnam veterans are not entitled to damages from a 2007 Department of Veterans Affairs computer security breach in Birmingham, Ala., an appeals court panel ruled Wednesday."

Circuit Judge Ed Carnes wrote today's opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

The opinion begins, "Someone pulled off the trick of making an object disappear from a safe in a darkened office building over a cold and rainy weekend. Unfortunately, the magician never completed the trick by making it reappear. The missing object is hardly a stage prop. It is an external computer hard drive belonging to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which contained the unencrypted names, social security numbers, birth dates, and healthcare files of more than 198,000 living veterans."

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).