A California state appeals court upheld the dismissal of a cross-complaint against law firm Foley & Lardner LLP seeking to hold it responsible for a 2020 ransomware attack because it hadn’t installed the latest security patch.
The lower court correctly ruled that file-sharing software provider Kiteworks, formerly known as Accellion Inc., filed its cross-complaint against the firm after the one-year lawsuit limitation in the user agreement, Associate Justice Cynthia C. Lie said in an unpublished opinion filed Tuesday in the California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District.
The software company’s appeal didn’t dispute the lower court’s finding that its claims ...
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