Deloitte has already been sued over the breach involving Rhode Island benefits recipient data. But now there’s a bigger suit. GOLOCAL/Prov Rhode Island reports:
The law firm that negotiated the $246 billion settlement with big tobacco is now suing Deloitte over the recent massive data breach in Rhode Island.
In a 65-page complaint filed this week in federal court, Vincent Green with Motley Rice LLC in Rhode Island, along with cooperating attorneys in Washington, DC, alleged that the consulting giant “failed to properly secure and safeguard the personally identifiable information and personal health information…of the Class, resulting in a data breach of the RIBridges computer software system, which is administered and operated by [Deloitte].”
….The federal lawsuit filed this week by Green with Motely Rice is on behalf of Renee Triguiero, “individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated” allowing for a class action.
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