Root v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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• concluding attempts to open bank accounts and access plaintiff’s email not fairly traceable to data breach because stolen data tapes didn’t include bank account information and email addresses
• finding, where plaintiff waited three years post-breach to file suit, that plaintiff had not alleged imminent risk of fraud
• finding no traceability when the plaintiff did not allege that the medical conditions targeted by increased spam mailings were listed in the medical records compromised in the breach
• “Plaintiff has not shown there is a substantial risk that his PII/PHI will be imminently 10 misused ‘in light of the attenuated chain of inferences necessary to find harm here.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).