The Lyon Firm Files Novant Health Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit
The Lyon Firm is actively involved in data privacy and data theft cases and is currently investigating the Novant Health data breach on behalf of victims and plaintiffs nationwide.
Update: The Lyon Firm has filed a class action Novant Health data breach complaint on behalf of impacted individuals nationwide. The firm continues to fight for your personal privacy rights, and compensate victims for damages and ongoing emotional distress.
Novant Health has sent around 1.3 million letters to patients alerting them that their sensitive information may have been shared with Facebook by way of the hospital system’s use of a digital tracker tool.
The healthcare provider allegedly leaked the data via Meta Pixel or Facebook Pixel, a snippet of code that tracks website visitor activity. Novant and other hospital systems have sent patient information to Meta through the tracking tool.
According to the Novant data breach notice, the following information could have been leaked to Facebook:
- phone number
- IP address
- Contact information
- Appointment type and date
- Physician
Joe Lyon is a highly-rated data breach lawyer and Privacy Attorney representing plaintiffs nationwide in class action security breach lawsuits.