Finkelstein Thompson LLP Investigates Tricare Data Breach.

Finkelstein Thompson LLP has filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against TRICARE Management Activity ("TMA"), the agency administering the TRICARE health care program to Uniformed Service members, retirees and their families; Science Applications International Corporation ("SAIC"), the government contractor for TMA; the United States Department of Defense ("DOD"); and Leon Panetta, in his Official Capacity as Secretary of the DOD, (collectively, "Defendants"). The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Defendants failed to maintain reasonable and adequate security procedures to safeguard its millions of military clinic and hospital patients' personally identifiable and protected health information.  Such confidential information includes members’ Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and some personal health data such as clinical notes, laboratory tests, and prescription information. The complaint further alleges that as many as 4.9 million of TRICARE members may have had their confidential information compromised when the members'; confidential information was contained on improperly encrypted or unencrypted backup tapes and stolen from an SAIC employee's vehicle on September 14, 2011.

If you have incurred out-of-pocket expenses as a result of the data breach and want to discuss your rights, or if you have information relating to this investigation, please contact Finkelstein Thompson's Washington, D.C. office at (877) 3337-1050 or by email at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .