TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 26, 2023

A class action lawsuit has been filed against the American Bar Association (ABA) for an alleged failure to safeguard members' data that was exposed in a security breach. The suit alleges that the ABA knowingly violated its obligations to abide by best practices and industry standards, the ABA Journal reports. The association notified members on April 20 that a breach had exposed usernames and certain passwords used to access the old ABA website prior to 2018 and the ABA Career Center since 2018. The passwords affected are those utilizing a process that adds random characters to plain text and then converts them to cybertext in the ABA system. Plain text passwords were not exposed, the group said.