Judge won’t toss ex-hedge fund manager’s claim Brevet Capital hacked his email
A federal judge has ruled that a former managing director of Brevet Capital Management — an asset firm that oversees billions of investment dollars — can move forward with a proposed lawsuit alleging that the company hacked into his personal accounts. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley on Tuesday denied a request from Brevet Capital to reconsider a previous court decision not to dismiss the case. In May, another judge ruled that Paul Iacovacci could move forward with claims that Brevet had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and other laws by accessing accounts and hard drives to read his personal email and extract data from his personal hard drives. Brevet previously has acknowledged accessing the data but denies any wrongdoing. The case, first filed in September, highlights uncomfortable questions about what information employers can access about their employees, and how they obtain that access. The issue is an especially pressing security question, as […]
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