TRICARE Beneficiaries File $4.9B Lawsuit Against Department of Defense

Two TRICARE beneficiaries and two others have filed a $4.9 billion class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense and TRICARE to seek damages from a recent data breach, according to a Nextgov.com report.

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The suit charges that TRICARE “flagrantly disregarded” its beneficiaries’ privacy rights by failing to implement adequate safeguards of their identity and “compounded its dereliction of duty by authorizing an untrained or improperly trained individual to take the highly confidential information off of government premises and to leave unencrypted information in an unguarded car in a public location,” according to the report.

Click here to read the full story in Becker’s Hospital Review on the $4.9 billion lawsuit.

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