Originally Posted by
Dragon7
I am sure neither HP nor the Contractor intended to cause a Security breech. No reasonable prosecutor would pursue this.
There are criminal penalties on the books for mishandling of PII. If mishandling occurred and it was deemed highly negligent with large-scale consequences, then prosecution could occur. Eventually that is going to happen at the rate we're going.
But there's nothing in the story to indicate mishandling, rather it sounds more like hacking.