More than a year after federal agents arrested 14 people accused in a cyberattack on PayPal, the high-profile prosecution has ground to a standstill over the handling of computers seized in the investigation. Searches carried out in a dozen states targeted computers, hard drives, and other digital devices, resulting in an avalanche of electronic material for investigators to sift through.
But intermingled with potential evidence of a crime were millions of irrelevant files, like e-mails, photographs, medical records, downloaded articles and Internet search histories.
