Tort

The Queen’s Bench Division granted the claimants injunctions, restraining the defendant from engaging in harassment of them and from making disclosures which they alleged would represent a misuse of their private information. To allow disclosure of information flowing from the defendant’s unauthorised, wrongful act of hacking to harass the claimants with threats of disclosure of their extra-marital relationship would be to permit the use of such wrongdoing as a springboard.