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A federal appeals court has ruled that consumers affected by a Zappos.com data breach have the right to sue the online retailer. The 2012 breach exposed the personal data of more than 24 million Zappos customers. A lower court previously held that the consumers lacked “standing” to bring a lawsuit against Zappos because their injuries were merely “conjectural.” But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision and allowed the case to continue. “With each new hack comes a new hacker, each of whom independently could choose to use the data to commit identity theft,” the court wrote.

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