The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that companies have a common-law duty to protect their electronically stored employee data, reversing two controversial lower court rulings that tossed out a lawsuit against UPMC over a data breach that exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of current and former employees.

In Wednesday’s decision in Dittman v. UPMC, a six-justice high court unanimously ruled to reverse the lower court’s rulings and reinstate the lawsuit against UPMC. Justice Christine Donohue did not participate in the decision.

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