ACLU class-action gives 20,000 state employees stronger voice in RIPTA, UHC data breach
Further documenting the incident’s devastating and overwhelming impact, cooperating attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (“ACLU”) have filed an amended complaint in their pending class-action lawsuit against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (“RIPTA”) and UnitedHealthcare New England (“UHC”) over an August 2021 data breach that compromised the Social Security numbers and other personal and health care information of more than 20,000 current and former state employees, including many with no connection to RIPTA. The 68-page amended complaint adds eleven plaintiffs to the lawsuit as “class representatives” and describes the fraud, identity theft and hacking of bank and credit card accounts for thousands of dollars that some of them experienced after the breach, and for others the discovery that their personal information could be found on the “Dark Web,” a non-public area of the Internet that cannot be accessed ...