American Medical Technologies' Data Breach Incident

American Medical Technologies’ Data Breach Incident

American Medical Technologies Reports Potential Data Security Incident Possibly Involving Personal Information

Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware that American Medical Technologies (“AMT”) submitted a “breach notification sample” letter to the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, which, among other things, stated that “[o]n or about December 17, 2019 [AMT] discovered suspicious activity within an employee’s email account.” According to AMT, “[a]fter an extensive and comprehensive investigation and data mining process, on May 14, 2020, [AMT] learned that [one’s] personal information may have been available to the attacker during the incident.”

Of significance, AMT reported that its investigation disclosed that “. . . Social Security number, medical record number, diagnosis information, health insurance policy or individual subscriber number, medical history information, HIPAA account information, driver’s license/state identification number, or taxpayer ID number, may have been impacted by this incident.”

Have You Been Impacted by A Data Breach?

If so, please either contact Kehoe Law Firm, P.C., Michael Yarnoff, Esq., (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, [email protected], complete the form on the right or e-mail [email protected] for a free, no-obligation case evaluation of your facts to determine whether your privacy rights have been violated and whether there is a basis for a data privacy class action.

Examples of the type of relief sought by data privacy class actions, include, but are not limited to, reimbursement of identity theft losses and of out-of-pocket costs paid by data breach victims for protective measures such as credit monitoring services, credit reports, and credit freezes; compensation for time spent responding to the breach; imposition of credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance, paid for by the defendant company; and improvements to the defendant company’s data security systems.

Data privacy class actions are brought on a contingent-fee basis; thus, plaintiffs and the class members do not pay out-of-pocket attorney’s fees or litigation costs.  Subject to court approval, attorney’s fees and litigation costs are derived from the recovery obtained for the class.

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