Breach lawsuit against UPMC dismissed
The lawsuit facing the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) regarding a data breach has been dismissed by an Allegheny County judge.
The class-action lawsuit against UPMC was filed in response to a data breach last year that affected several thousand employees.
The lawsuit claimed the provider left its employees vulnerable to attackers, allowing hackers to steal their private information, but Common Pleas Judge R. Stanton Wettick wrote in his 14-page opinion that UPMC also was a victim of the cyber attack. Wettick said an improved system for storing confidential information would not have necessarily prevented the breach.
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