Count VIII Theft of Trade Secrets (18 U.S.C. § 1830-32)
-
The Plaintiff owns and possesses certain non-public, proprietary, sensitive and confidential information and data, including without limitation, DNS data.
-
DNS internet traffic data houses highly proprietary, sensitive and confidential data. For example, among other things, an analysis of raw DNS data could reveal a comprehensive view into an individual or a company’s website traffic, e-mail traffic, webmail traffic, chat messaging, in addition to the types of technology, hardware, software, programs, securities and processes being utilized by the servers.
-
Neustar and Joffe, at the direction of Perkins Coie, Sussmann, Clinton Campaign, DNC, and Clinton, exploited access to non-public data sources and/or servers, and unlawfully acquired, stole and exploited sensitive, proprietary and confidential internet data, including without limitation, DNS information, traffic, and/or data originating from computers and/or servers:
(i)located at Plaintiff’s private apartment in Central Park West in New York and belonging to the Plaintiff; and
(ii) located at Trump Tower and belonging to The Trump Organization, in which Plaintiff has an ownership interest (collectively, with the computers and/or servers house in Plaintiff’s private apartment, “Plaintiff’s Servers”).
-
Joffe and Neustar exploited their access to non-public data to, among other things, mine DNS traffic and other data from Plaintiff’s Servers for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about the Plaintiff.
-
In doing so, Joffe and Neustar intentionally accessed, without authorization, Plaintiff’s Servers.
[page 89]