A federal judge has ruled that the “heightened risk of future identity theft” isn’t enough to establish standing for a woman who filed a class-action lawsuit after her personal data was compromised in the 2014 hack of St. Joseph Health Systems. Courthouse News Service reports U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt dismissed the suit after St. Joseph argued the woman had not suffered an injury traceable to the breach and hadn’t proved any quantifiable damage or loss. In his ruling, Hoyt cited Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, stating the plaintiff’s allegation that risk has increased doesn’t translate into “cognizable injury.”
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