Defamation Claims Over Leaked Patient Data File Dismissed On Summary Judgment

( May 21, 2026, 1:15 PM EDT) -- PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge granted summary judgment to a cybersecurity company and its former CEO in a long-running defamation dispute arising from the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation and enforcement action over a cancer-screening company’s alleged exposure of a patient information file on a peer-to-peer network, dismissing the remaining defamation per se claim over 2015 public statements describing the file as publicly available, exposed or leaked....