Exposing Private Information
Dominion National Data Breach Settlement
This settlement resolves a class action against a Dominion National Insurance Company, a group of related companies, and a number of other insurance companies, concerning a cyberattack that took began on or around August 25, 2010. The complaint alleged that the defendants did not adequately protect personal information in their systems. Read more
Nebraska Medicine Data Breach Settlement
This settlement resolves a class action concerning a data breach suffered by Nebraska Medicine or the University of Nebraska between August 27, 2020 and September 20, 2020. The incident exposed names, addresses, dates of birth, health insurance information, medical record numbers or clinical information, and, for some patients, Social Security or driver’s license numbers. Read more
Elekta Ransomware Attack and Breach of Cancer Patient Data Class Action
Elekta, Inc. keeps data for cancer healthcare providers in a cloud-based data storage. This data includes personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). This class action concerns a ransomware attack and data breach that allowed hackers access to Elekta’s cloud-based radiology software as well as to the information stored in Elekta’s systems. The Read more
Minted Data Breach Settlement
This settlement resolves a class action against Minted, Inc. concerning a data breach that took place around May 6, 2020. The complaint alleged that Minted did not take reasonable steps to protect consumer information, detect the data breach, or provide prompt notice to customers. Read more
ParkMobile Exposure of Users’ PII in Data Breach Class Action
ParkMobile, LLC and ParkMobile USA, Inc. offer parking-related services to consumers in the US. In order to become users, consumers must provide their personally identifiable information (PII) to ParkMobile and create accounts. The complaint alleges that ParkMobile failed to properly protect customers’ PII and permitted a data breach of its systems that compromised the information Read more
Leaders Life Insurance Failure to Protect PII Class Action
The complaint for this class action accuses, “Leaders Life [Insurance Company], which services over 700 agents and brokers, and 1,400 employer groups, is now among those companies which have failed to meet their obligation to protect the sensitive PII entrusted to them by their current and former customers. PII is personally identifiable information, which was Read more
Trinity Health Patient Info Exposed Via Accellion FTP Class Action
This class action brings suit against Trinity Health Corporation for its failure to safeguard patient information. At its heart is the File Transfer Appliance (FTA) provided by vendor Accellion, used for the transfer of large files. Cybercriminals were able to exploit weaknesses in the FTA and download personal and protected health information belonging to Trinity’s Read more
Netgain Technology Ransomware Attack Class Action
This class action brings suit against Netgain Technology, LLC and CareSouth Carolina, Inc. for what it calls “the massive and preventable ransomware attack” of December 3, 2020. Netgain offers cloud hosting and information technology services for customers in healthcare and accounting. CareSouth, a community health center, is one of its customers. A patient of CareSouth, Read more
Accellion FTA File Transfer Appliance Data Breach Class Action
A number of class actions have been filed in recent months against companies who had data breaches relating to the use of Accellion, Inc.’s File Transfer Appliance (FTA). This class action brings suit directly against Accellion because of vulnerabilities in the FTA system that it has not addressed. Read more
20/20 Eye Care Network Inadequate Data Security Class Action
20/20 Eye Care Network, Inc. and iCare Health Solutions, LLC are related companies that deal with hearing and vision insurance, including with respect to over-55 ophthalmology and optometry in Florida. The complaint for this class action alleges that the companies failed to protect patients’ personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) from a Read more