One of the largest employers in Pennsylvania did not owe a legal duty to protect its employees’ personal and financial information that was hacked and later used to make fraudulent tax filings, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled in an issue of apparent first impression.
A divided three-judge panel of the court Thursday ruled that UPMC could not be held liable in a suit brought by several employees who were the victim of identity theft after their electronically-stored employment information, including dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers, was stolen from the health care provider company’s servers.
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