University of Pittsburgh Medical Center found not responsible for employee data securance

Last month, the Pennsylvania Superior Court dismissed a class action lawsuit, which was filed against the University of Pittsburg Medical Center and ruled that the University has no responsibility in protecting employee data.

In this incident, the following data was compromised: dates of birth, names, social security numbers, addresses, salary, tax and bank information.

According to the court documents, the University had a breach in 2014, which finally resulted in approximately 788 tax fraud victims by compromising the information of nearly 62,000 UMPC employees.

Even though the University of Pittsburg Medical Center has been ruled not to have any legal duty to protect the personal and financial information of its employees under state law, the ruling is contradictory to a similar case of Texas hospital, which was penalized $3.2 million after a breach of data.