Health Data breach suit, CareFirst, is heading to the US Supreme Court, and setting up the standards for what injuries are necessary for a data security claim.
The Appellate Court found that “that CareFirst failed to properly secure their data and thereby subjected them to a substantial risk of identity theft…we have little difficulty concluding that their injury in fact is fairly traceable to CareFirst,”
Code words for legislative drafters: fairly traceable
Health IT Security | CareFirst Data Breach Case Moves to US Supreme Court