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Change Healthcare moves to dismiss data breach litigation allegations

( March 21, 2025, 16:48 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Change Healthcare asked a federal judge in Minnesota to dismiss proposed class-action litigation in the wake of a record data breach that exposed the personal information about about 190 million Americans. "As Plaintiffs see it, because Change fell victim to the Cyberattack, Defendants must have been negligent," the healthcare payments processor said in a court filing. "But negligence is not strict liability, and the mere occurrence of a cyberattack does not establish duty, breach, or injury—all of which must be plausibly pled to survive a motion to dismiss. Plaintiffs’ effectively-per se theory of liability runs contrary to hundreds of years of common law precedent and dozens of more recent applications in breach cases. It also disregards the facts as pled." See attached document....

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