On December 2, 2014, a former executive at Korn Ferry who was convicted for violations of the CFAA and the Economic Espionage Act filed his opening brief in his appeal of his convictions to the Ninth Circuit. The defendant argued that the CFAA does not make it a federal crime to obtain permission to use another's login credentials to access a third party's computer system. He also challenged the classification of the "source lists" that he obtained as "trade secrets."

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