Plaintiffs Consent to Consolidation Into Related Action Over HealthEC Data Breach

The plaintiffs in a negligence class actio in Kendall Hawk et al v. HealthEC consented to consolidation of their privacy case into Lempinen v. HealthEC (2:24-cv-00026), said an order signed Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-00697) by U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Kiel in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Camden. Plaintiffs in the negligence cases allege cyber thieves had eight days to exfiltrate their personally identifiable information in a July data breach that HealthEC didn’t discover until over three months later. The data breach affected 4.5 million current and former patients.