Note: This post was originally posted in our Southeast Financial Litigation Monitor.
Gregory C. Cook & Brandon N. Robinson
The story is becoming all too common. A merchant (or consumer) is convinced to wire money to a fraudulent account because of an incorrect belief that they are wiring the money to the real party.
An Alabama man has been sentenced to spend six months in prison for illegally accessing the personal information of over fifty women. For over two years, Kevin Maldonado engaged in a hacking technique called “phishing,” creating fake email accounts impersonating email providers and requesting numerous women to change their email passwords. He was then
On December 19, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas denied a motion to dismiss, ruling that the named plaintiff for a putative class, approximately two thousand former and current employees whose personal information had been compromised as a result if a phishing attack, had alleged sufficient harm for standing under Spokeo
