Lawyers should have a basic understanding of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which provides criminal and civil penalties for wrongfully accessing a computer to do harmful things. They also ...

At this point, your IT department has almost certainly warned you to approach your e-mail inbox with skepticism--for good reason. Cybercriminals regularly and effectively impersonate our legitimate ...

What can an employer do when its employee accesses data in a way that violates company policy? In the past, one avenue for relief was the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a federal statute that ...

In the absence of actual hacking, under the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s holding, the employer cannot state a claim under the CFAA. The Third Circuit also concluded that passwords are ...