Litigation and legal developments concerning data breaches.
IPB reports: Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is suing a northwest Indiana medical office over a ransomware event that put personal and protected health information at risk. The lawsuit alleges the provider was aware of security concerns before the data breach. The lawsuit filed last week against CarePointe — an ear, nose, throat, sinus and hearing […]
Another day, another RICO class action? Courthouse News reports: Taxpayers slapped Meta, Google and H&R Block with a sprawling RICO class action Wednesday, claiming that a “shocking breach” coordinated by the companies resulted in scraping taxpayers’ private information for profit. In a 49-page complaint, the plaintiffs say the international firm H&R Block used customers’ private income […]
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a settlement with Broomfield Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC. The settlement arose from a 2021 data breach affecting patient and employee data. The state claimed that Broomfield violated a number of state laws that are specifically identified in the assurance of discontinuance (settlement). The following is the press […]
When New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with Marymount Manhattan College stemming from a data breach in 2021, some people discussing the case online were surprised that a state could go after a non-profit college that way, and they wondered if the state could get that kind of settlement with a […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released a report, “Harmonization of Cyber Incident Reporting to the Federal Government.” The report, which was released on Sept. 19, notes that there are currently dozens of cyberattack reporting requirements at the federal level. DHS is seeking to come up with a manageable and solution: … this report […]
In August, The Data Breach Times reported a data breach involving UnitedLex that raised questions about their security and incident response. The article also noted a lawsuit that was filed by a former employee. This week, the Kansas City Business Journal reports another lawsuit stemming from that breach. This one reportedly: accuses UnitedLex of negligence […]
Bloomberg Law reports that MultiCare Health System will get another chance to avoid liability for attempts to recoup wage overpayments in litigation following a hack of its vendor timekeeping system Kronos in 2021. With the timekeeping system not functioning due to a ransomware attack, many firms wound up using old wage statements or other methods […]
According to a report by Bloomberg Law, e-commerce services vendor Freestyle Solutions Inc. failed to convince a federal court judge in New Jersey to totally dismiss a lawsuit by Penn LLC (PulseTV). The lawsuit stemmed from a data breach affecting more than 236,000 customers of PulseTV whose payment card data was compromised in a breach that continued […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement of potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules with LA Care, the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan that provides health care benefits and coverage through state, federal, and commercial programs. OCR enforces the HIPAA […]
This summer, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules to enhance and standardize disclosures by public companies regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incidents. The rules will impose a number of new requirements, including disclosures regarding: Read more of this article at Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report.
