Premera Blue Cross Reports Data Breach Legal News Articles & Interviews

Los Angeles, CA With so many data breach lawsuits in the news lately, a person would think that companies that have access to private consumer or patient information would take cyber security seriously. Unfortunately, every day there seems to be more news about companies that have been hit by hackers and have allowed customer information to be made vulnerable. One of the more recent of the data breaches is the Premera data breach, in which approximately millions of patients had their private information compromised.

New York, NY When retail stores have suffered data breaches, the incidents have been big news, but data breaches at insurance companies can be even more harmful. Gary Graifman, partner at Kantrowitz Goldhamer & Graifman in charge of consumer class-action litigation, says Premera policyholders whose information was accessed in a recent data breach could be at risk of identity theft for a long period of time. Premera lawsuits have now been filed alleging, among other things, that the company was negligent in its handling of sensitive policyholder information, that it failed to follow the data breach notification laws it is subject to and that it violated consumer protection laws.

Seattle, WA The hackers responsible for the recent cyber attack on federal government computers could also have been responsible for the Premera Blue Cross Data Breach of 11 Million Accounts, or so is the supposition reported recently in the New York Times and the Puget Sound Business Journal (6/5/15).