Judges Explore Whether Massive Federal Data Breach Hurt Anyone

Whether a pair of massive data breaches that exposed the information of more than 22 million people harmed them was the focus of arguments during a Nov. 2 appeals court hearing.

Federal employee unions suing the government over its handling of the breaches told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that their lawsuits were wrongly dismissed by a lower court. A federal district court ruled in September 2017 that neither the American Federation of Government Employees nor the National Treasury Employees Union, which filed separate lawsuits, had standing to sue. The unions didn’t show the ...