HealthEquity, an administrator of workplace benefits for more than 15 million people, is notifying 4.3 million individuals, starting on August 9, 2024, that their personal information was compromised. The compromised data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, employee IDs, employers, Social Security numbers, health card numbers, health plan member numbers, benefit types, dependent information, and diagnosis

There is a significant nexus between data privacy and security and e-discovery that grows more pronounced as the volume of data generated multiplies exponentially and the ability of e-discovery tools to collect and process that data grows increasingly sophisticated. Specifically, the e-discovery process presents a very real risk of inadvertently compromising Personal Identifying Information (PII).