Legal Opinion

U.S. Office of Pers. Mgmt. Data SEC. Breach Litig. v. Office of Pers. Mgmt.

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided June 21, 2019No. 17-5117PublishedCited by 81 opinions

Opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part filed by Senior Circuit Judge Williams.

1Per curiam

In 2014, cyberattackers breached multiple U.S. Office of Personnel Management ("OPM") databases and allegedly stole the sensitive personal information-including birth dates, Social Security numbers, addresses, and even fingerprint records-of a staggering number of past, present, and prospective government workers. All told, the data breaches affected more than twenty-one million people. Unsurprisingly, given the scale of the attacks and the sensitive nature of the information stolen, news of the breaches generated not only widespread alarm, but also several lawsuits. These suits were…

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2Cases cited119 opinions

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