Prospect Medical Sued Over July Data Breach Affecting 190,000

Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. allegedly failed to protect the personal information of tens of thousands of people that was exposed in a July data breach, a proposed federal class action said.

Joshua Strandinger alleged that Prospect, a health-care provider that operates 16 hospitals in five states, didn’t encrypt sensitive data or implement reasonable data-security procedures and policies, and didn’t follow the FTC’s data-security guidelines.

Information exposed in the breach included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, diagnosis information, lab results, prescription information, treatment information, and health-insurance and claims information, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District ...