One Friday evening, one of our clients called and informed us that its security systems had been penetrated and significant data had been breached. Millions of records had been obtained, and a cybertheft ring had set up an online auction offering a live portal into the client’s network.
Immediately, we—together with our client’s corporate counsel—began work over the weekend to prepare and file a series of federal complaints under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030. The objective was to immediately identify the culpable party and stop the data penetration.
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