The plaintiffs - at least 24 individuals from at least 15 states - sued, alleging negligence, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, and violation of state privacy and business laws, among other claims. The breach exposed customers' names, medical information, information related to their use of Ambry’s services, and, in some instances, Social Security numbers. In April 2020, Ambry told customers that it had identified unauthorized access to an employee's email account in January of that year. The most recent, fourth amended complaint was filed in December 2021. The settlement follows a back-and-forth between plaintiffs and Ambry, where the complaint had been dismissed, amended, and refiled multiple times.
Including credit monitoring and identity theft insurance services, the parties valued the settlement as "likely to exceed $20 million." To date, Ambry has spent between $800,000 and $1.4 million on providing notice of the breach to class members, including offering certain credit monitoring services. The settlement does not include an admission of liability or wrongdoing by Ambry. Ambry, which is owned by Realm IDx, formerly Konica Minolta Precision Medicine, has also agreed to several business practice changes, including implementing additional security-related measures, enhanced policies and training for staff, enhanced restrictions to access personal health information, and other security measures. 9 with the US District Court for the Central District of California, Ambry will pay $12.3 million into a settlement fund. The SolarWinds hack was a major event not because a single company was breached, but because it triggered a much larger supply chain incident that affected thousands of organizations.
NEW YORK – Ambry Genetics has settled a class action lawsuit over a breach of personal customer data that occurred in 2020.Īccording to the settlement agreement, filed Sept. Adult video streaming website CAM4 has had its Elasticsearch server breached exposing over 10 billion. But just as 2020 was about to close, it pulled another fast one on us: the SolarWinds hack, one of the biggest cybersecurity breaches of the 21st century.
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