Class action suit seeks $4.9 billion in damages from TRICARE data theft
Plaintiffs allege the military health care provider put personal and sensitive information at risk by failing to encrypt the digital files.
An Air Force veteran of the first Iraq war and a military spouse and her two children have hit the Defense Department with a class action lawsuit seeking $4.9 billion in damages from the theft of a computer tape containing personal and sensitive health information from the car of an employee of Science Applications International Corp., a contractor with the TRICARE Health Management Activity. Read the whole story at Nextgov.com.