Exposure to cyber crime
BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Negligence and Data Breach Class Action
BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services, LLC is a specialty pharmacy that offers products and services for people with cancer, infusion, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C, and other complex or chronic conditions. As such, it maintains a great deal of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) on its customers. This class action concerns BioPlus’s recent Read more
MedData Data Breach PII and PHI on Public-Facing Website Class Action
This class action alleges that MedData, Inc. bears responsibility for a “massive and preventable disclosure of medical information … during which highly sensitive MedData files had been uploaded and saved to a public-facing website…” The complaint refers to this event as the Healthcare Data Breach. Read more
Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego Data Breach Settlement
Rady’s Children’s Hospital-San Diego is settling two class actions against it regarding a data breach that took place between June 20, 2019 and January 3, 2020 and exposed radiology-related patient information on two servers via an Internet port. The complaint alleged that Rady is responsible for the data breach, was negligent, and violated the Confidentiality Read more
Wilderness Sports Warehouse Accessing of Customers’ PII Class Action
This class action takes up an all-too-present topic—a data breach. It brings suit against Wilderness Sports Warehouse, LLC (which does business as Tackle Warehouse, LLC0; Sports Warehouse, Inc. (which does business as Tennis Warehouse, LLC); Running Warehouse, LLC; and Skate Warehouse, LLC. The complaint alleges that the companies are e-commerce companies that sell specialty sporting Read more
Artech Cybersecurity Incident Settlement
Artech, LLC is settling a class action alleging it bears some responsibility for an attempted ransomware attach and possible data breach that took place between January 5 and 8, 2020. The complaint alleged that a large volume of data, including personal information for 30,000 current and former employees, was accessible to unauthorized parties, although forensic Read more
QRS Exposure of PII and PHI in Data Breach Class Action
When a company collects, uses, and derives a benefit from individuals’ private information, the complaint for this class action says, it “assume[s] legal and equitable duties to those individuals to protect and safeguard that information from unauthorized access and intrusion.” The complaint therefore sues QRS, Inc. for failing to safeguard sensitive information that was disclosed Read more
QRS Patient Information Exposed in Data Breach Class Action
In recent years, healthcare providers and companies who offer services to them have been frequent targets of cybercriminals. These companies, like the defendant in this case, QRS, Inc., store not only the personally identifiable information (PII) of patients but also their protected health information (PHI). The complaint for this class action alleges that QRS did Read more
BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Exposure of Patient PII and PHI Class Action
BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services, LLC is a pharmacy that offers specialty pharmacy services for patients with complex chronic conditions, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, and hepatitis C. As such, it collects and stores both personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) on customers. The complaint for this class action alleges that BioPlus “is Read more
Smile Brands, Sahawneh Dental Exposure of Patient PII and PHI Class Action
Smile Brands, Inc. is a large dental service organization, and Sahawneh Dental Corporation is one of Smile’s many affiliates. Smile provides business support services for dental offices like Sahawneh. In their respective roles, Smile and Sahawneh collect and maintain patients’ personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). These two companies are the defendants Read more
Bansley and Kiener Exposure of Sensitive Information Class Action
This class action brings suit against Bansley and Kiener, LLP (B&K), alleging it “failed to implement reasonable, adequate, and industry standard security measures on its IT network where it stored and maintained Sensitive Information. The complaint claims its failures led to a data breach that exposed the private information of tens of thousands of people. Read more
