Christopher Brown reports:
Court Ventures Inc. properly beat a suit alleging it failed to notify victims of a security breach that it became aware of only after its sale to Experian Data Corp., a California appellate court ruled.
Former owners of computerized data containing personal information aren’t required to provide notice of a breach under the California Consumer Records Act, Justice Thomas A. Delaney of the California Court of Appeals said Friday.
Read more at Bloomberg Law.
It’s an interesting opinion, in that Court Ventures did own the data during the time it was being misused or compromised, but the court held that they were NOT responsible for breach notification under California law because they did not own the data at the time of discovery of the breach.
DataBreaches covered the Court Ventures and Experian breaches and legal controversies over a period of years. For posts mentioning Court Ventures, start here.