Deloitte Consulting has been hit with class action lawsuits over the cyber breach of Rhode Island’s portal for state-administered benefits known as RIBridges.
The suits have been brought in Rhode Island and New York federal courts on behalf of individuals who applied for or are enrolled in benefits offered by RIBridges and whose personal private information may have been hacked. The suit claims that Deloitte, as services provider for RIBridges, has been negligent for failing to protect the plaintiffs’ sensitive data and for being slow to notify them of the breach.
Deloitte has acknowledged that some of the information breached contained names, addresses, dates of birth a