Tens of Thousands of Adult Website Records Compromised

[Georgie]

While it's likely the e-mail list got out and people got spammed, e-mail addresses are not protected by law the same way financial records are. If that were the case, millions of ordinary consumers who have a spambot on their PC would be looking at fines, jail terms, and civil judgements. No one is calling for Joe Schmuck to announce that he found a spambot trojan on his PC and got rid of it with McAfee.

Whatever damage the NATS breach might have caused, the fact that e-mail boxes got spammed and that's actionable is dopey. The claim that "NATS Possibly in Breach of Laws of Nearly 40 States" was written by a person who has no clue what he's talking about. (And it's couched in weasel terms as well to avoid claims of libel.)