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Quintilone & Associates   is currently investigating the Hartland, Wisconsin-based OneTouchPoint, Inc. (“OTP”), a printing and mailing company that provides services to various healthcare providers, for failing to safeguard sensitive patient information in a data breach that occurred in April 2022 .  The incident happened when the company discovered suspicious activity on its computer systems.  An investigation into the attack found that an unauthorized actor had gained access to files that contained patient names, member ID numbers, and information provided during patients’ health assessments.  So far from other sources, we are aware of  the affected healthcare practices affected by the data breach at OTP include, but are not limited to: Anthem Affiliated Covered Entities Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative Banner Medicare Advantage Dual Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona MediSun, Inc. d/b/a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Advantage Health Choice Arizona...
  OneTouchPoint CCPA Data Breach Class Action Investigation The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides consumer Plaintiffs in California with a private right of action to pursue statutory damages following data security breaches that impact certain sensitive categories of personal information and are caused by a business’s failure to institute reasonable and appropriate security. Though the CCPA does not allow private lawsuits with respect to violations of the CCPA’s privacy provisions, it does allow a person to sue for the CCPA’s breach of security provisions. Further, the lack of a specified private right of action has not deterred Plaintiff and counsel from filing suit and arguing that their case should be permitted to proceed or from repackaging a CCPA privacy violation as a violation of California’s unfair practices law, See California Business & Professions Code section 17200, et seq.  Of course, traditional data privacy and data security-related class ...