This may be one for the “small breach, big harm” files.
Robert Kovacik and Mary Harris report on a lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by a woman who alleges that her rapist got her address and information from a Mercedes car dealership where he worked and where she brought her car for servicing.
According to the plaintiff, the employee never should have had access to her address and information in the course of his work.
Read about the allegations on NBC Los Angeles.
This is one of those cases – with real harm and injury, it appears – where someone tries to hold an employer liable for employee misconduct by alleging failure to adequately protect data. As I’ve noted in the past, these types of claims have resulted in mixed outcomes.