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The DOJ Goes Phishing: The Rise of False Claims Act Cybersecurity Litigation
This past October, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the launch of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative targeting entities and individuals that fail to follow government cybersecurity standards. Under the initiative, to be led by the Fraud Section of the Civil Division's Commercial Litigation Branch, the DOJ announced that it would utilize its powerful enforcement tool — the False Claims Act (FCA) — to pursue cybersecurity-related fraud by government contractors and grant recipients. Shortly after the announcement, in remarks at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) 4th Annual National Cybersecurity Summit on Oct. 13, 2021, DOJ Civil Division acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton described three "prime candidates" for potential FCA enforcement under the initiative: 1) providing products or services that fail to comply with cybersecurity standards; 2) misrepresenting security controls and practices; and 3) failing to timely report suspected cybersecurity breaches.
The DOJ's initiative comes alongside increased government activity to curb cybersecurity and government contractor risks. Earlier last year, emphasizing this new focus on cybersecurity and compliance, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (EO 14028), which called for, among other things, federal agencies to adopt updated contractual requirements for information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) contractors to share information about potential cyber threats. In January 2022, President Biden signed a National Security Memorandum to Improve the Cybersecurity of National Security, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community Systems, calling out cybersecurity as a national security and economic security imperative for the administration. And on Feb. 9, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced upcoming new rules requiring registrants to maintain cybersecurity polices and standards and report significant cyber incidents to the SEC, among other things.
While the DOJ Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative is still in its early stages and cybersecurity regulations are evolving, whistleblower plaintiffs have already begun leveraging the FCA to pursue alleged noncompliance with government cybersecurity requirements.
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