Colorado Fertility Clinic Sued Over Data Breach Affecting 80,000

A Colorado-based fertility clinic is facing a proposed class action for allegedly failing to protect some 80,000 patients’ sensitive personal information from exposure during an April 2024 ransomware attack.

Conceptions Reproductive Associates Inc. didn’t implement adequate security measures to prevent the data breach and violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act by taking six months to notify patients that their information was compromised, according to the complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado.

An anonymous former CRA patient whose personal information was leaked in the breach is seeking to represent a class of ...