Settlement Status
On March 4, 2021, the Court granted final approval to the class action settlement and entered the Final Judgment. The administrator began the distribution of benefits in May 2021.
Please be advised that we cannot respond to questions concerning any individual’s membership in the class action or the status of any Claim submitted to the Administrator. Please direct your inquiry to the Administrator – the entity authorized by the Court to respond. The Administrator can be reached at:
UnityPoint Health Settlement
Claim Administrator
P.O. Box 4098
Portland, OR 97208-4098
Toll Free: 1-855-917-3553
Email: info@UPHSettlement.com
Website: www.UPHsettlement.com
You may review additional information about the settlement and certain Court-filed documents at the Administrator’s website listed above.
Case Overview
On August 13, 2018, Plaintiffs filed their Second Amended Complaint against UnityPoint Health (“UnityPoint”), an integrated healthcare provider serving Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois. Plaintiffs brought this litigation on behalf of individuals whose personally identifiable information/protected health information (PII/PHI) was allegedly compromised in two data breaches. The First Data Breach occurred in November 2017 and the Second Data Breach was in March 2018
Plaintiffs alleged that cyber-criminals accessed and obtained the PII/PHI of UnityPoint’s patients and employees through one or more UnityPoint employee email accounts. Approximately 16,429 UnityPoint patients and employees were compromised in the first data breach. Approximately 1.4 million UnityPoint patients and employees were compromised in the second data breach.
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