Tonya Riley reports:
IBM Corp. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. face a Florida man’s proposed class action over an August data breach that potentially exposed the personal health information of more than a half-million people.
Plaintiff Jarvis Bryant Jenkins alleged the companies were negligent regarding the safety of his sensitive health records, shared with J&J, that were exposed as result of a data breach at IBM, according to the complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The data breach affected J&J’s Janssen CarePath system, a patient support program that offers users assistance and information regarding their prescription medications and holds their data.
Read more at Bloomberg Law.
The case is Jarvis Bryant Jenkins v. International Business Machines Corporation and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., Case 7:23-cv-10244 (S.D.N.Y. Nov 21, 2023)