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MikeFleming
08-30-2013, 12:08 PM
--Electronic Data Does Not Constitute 'Tangible Property.'
(28th August)
Insurance company Liberty Mutual has filed a lawsuit against the supermarket chain Schnucks seeking release from liability in relation to a computer security breach Schnucks suffered earlier this year. Between December 2012 and March of this year 2.4 million credit and debit cards used at 79 of Schnucks' stores were compromised. As a result eight lawsuits have been filed against Schnucks by customers whose cards were hacked. Liberty Mutual is refusing to meet those claims stating that its coverage only applies to property damage and bodily injury and that electronic data does not constitute 'tangible property.'

http://fox2now.com/2013/08/28/schnucks-sued-by-their-insurance-company-for-data-breach/
http://supermarketnews.com/retail-amp-financial/insurer-sues-schnucks-over-data-breach
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Insurance-Company-Files-Lawsuit-Against-Schnucks-for-Data-Breach-378850.shtml

in2fords
08-30-2013, 06:24 PM
Then we should ask them for all digital records of their customers information since it isn't "tangible property" so they can't claim ownership of it if it doesn't exist!

ChrisCurtin
08-31-2013, 05:40 AM
Could be interesting to see what states this happened in. I know way too much for my taste about sales tax laws on software and services but in many states software and services are taxable, storage probably is not.