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Officials in the company contracted to handle Pennsylvania’s covid-19 contact tracing efforts were aware in November of possible security breaches in their program and failed to take any action, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Harrisburg.
The complaint, filed by Lisa Chapman of New Kensington, seeks class-action status. It names as defendants the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Insight Global Inc., based in Atlanta.
Insight Global did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The health department contracted Insight last year to perform contact tracing with no competitive bidding process. The state has paid $29 million, and the contract expires in July, according to the lawsuit.