On the same day Montana’s insurance commissioner announced an investigation into a massive data breach by the state’s largest health insurance company, a group of attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit in Helena alleging that the corporation failed to notify customers and didn’t take standard precautions to safeguard the data, which could include birth dates, Social Security numbers and data on the health conditions of individuals.

The class action lawsuit, filed in Lewis and Clark County District Court, says that Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Montana should be held responsible for as many as 462,000 Montana customers’ private and healthcare information being taken. That is approximately one-third of the state’s residents.

Moreover, it accuses the insurance giant of knowing about the data

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