Anderson v. Hannaford Bros. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• discussing the availability, in Maine, of recovery for economic losses in the form of “mitigation damages,” i.e., recovery for costs and harms incurred during a reasonable effort to mitigate losses occasioned by computer data breaches
• “A jury could reasonably conclude, therefore, that an implicit agreement to safeguard the data is necessary to effectuate the contract.”
• “[T]his case does not involve inadvertently misplaced or lost data accessed or misused by third parties. Here, there was actual misuse, and it was apparently global in reach.”
• electronic payment processing system of national grocery chain was breached by hackers who stole up to 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, and security codes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).