- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
Not really, but it's hard to imagine a lawsuit serving much purpose. You generally aren't responsible for other people's criminal acts. There might be some kind of negligence argument, or perhaps liability under something like the California Consumer Privacy Act (which has penalties for inadvertent disclosures of consumer information and I am not sure whether the crime of a third party enabled by incompetence would trigger it).I don't think anything will happen for obvious reasons and I'm someone who dabbles in network security, but is she completely protected from a legal perspective? She was beyond incompetent for someone holding user stuff. This is equivalent of someone doing "babies first security+ class" and failing the test horribly.
I'm sure someone determined enough could cook up an argument about it but I don't think much of the likelihood of legally cognizable damages. Or of collecting them if someone won them for that matter.