Gardiner v. Walmart provided some guidance as to the specificity required to state a claim under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the types of damages that may be recoverable for breaches of California consumer data. On July 10, 2020, Lavarious Gardiner filed a proposed class action against Walmart, alleging that unauthorized individuals accessed
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Cottage Health Pays $2M to CA AG for Data Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
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Cottage Health, a three hospital health care system located in California has agreed to pay the California Attorney General’s Office $2 million to settle allegations that it failed to implement data security safeguards to protect patients’ health information that was accessible online and indexed by search engines.
In December 2013, it was discovered that one…