Judge mulls request to dismiss SC hacking lawsuit

Published February 7, 2013 6:14pm ET



COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley and the state’s former revenue director were dismissed from a lawsuit Thursday over a massive security breach at South Carolina’s tax collection agency.

But Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper said during a hearing in Columbia he needed more time to consider requests to dismiss the case against Haley’s office, the Department of Revenue, South Carolina’s Division of Information Technology and a private data security company.

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