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Pennsylvanians who had personal information exposed in contact tracing data breach no longer suing state

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Dissent

Rick Earle reports:

The Pennsylvania Health Department has been dismissed from a federal lawsuit including Insight Global, the company responsible.

Insight Global is now the only defendant named in that lawsuit.

Target 11 broke the story in April that personal information of more than 70,000 Pennsylvania residents involved in COVID-19 contact tracing had been compromised. Insight Global blamed it on employees who they say failed to secure the data.

Read more on WPXI.


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