Case: In re: Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. Data Breach Litig., No. 13-cv-07418-CCC Court: District of New Jersey |
Kaplan Fox is co-counsel for the plaintiffs and proposed class of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield members whose personal identifying information and protected health information was stored on unencrypted laptops, which were later stolen in November, 2013. More than one-third of all New Jersey residents had personal information stored on the laptops. The complaint alleges that Horizon violated various state and federal laws when it failed to secure the laptops and for failing to encrypt the information, despite promising to do so following a similar breach several years earlier. The New Jersey State Senator leading an investigation of the incident referred to Horizon's data protection as "very sloppy." |